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...Inhuman Clay. Caro is amply qualified to pioneer the engineer's esthetic in art. Son of a stockbroker, he took an engineering degree at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1944, then studied art for six years, mostly at the Royal Academy Schools, before serving a two-year apprenticeship under Henry Moore. Not until 1957 did he have a one-man show in London of savage figurative bronzes, which drove a critic to gasp, "One almost wishes them back into clay." Caro gave up modeling in clay as "lifeless." A trip to the U.S. opened his eyebeams...
...medical faculties and more and more it is being subjected to critical and often painful re-evaluation. The other half of medical education which takes place during internship, residency and fellowship is not the legal responsibility of the medical school or University and is more akin to the old apprenticeship system of education than the University. To be sure, University faculties are involved in University-affiliated hospitals, but the "curriculum" is the creature of the specialty boards, accreditation bodies and the pafrticular speciality groups within the hospitals. It is a system of education which has grown like Topsy, and interns...
Ostensibly, the brotherhood was demanding an apprenticeship program to train firemen for engineer positions. It was clear, however, that Brotherhood President H. E. (Ed) Gilbert was angling to recoup the power lost by his union in 1963 when Congress, to break a negotiations impasse over featherbedding, enacted the first peacetime compulsory-arbitration law. The arbitration board subsequently approved the elimination from yard and freight crews of nine out of every ten firemen jobs. At least 18,000 jobs have since vanished. Reacting promptly to the walkout, Federal District Judge Alexander Holtzoff held that the union had failed to properly mediate...
...Apprenticeship. The fountainhead of talent on which both of these groups depends is the provincial theater. In Britain there are 57 fulltime, professional repertory companies-twice as many as in the U.S., which is four times as populous and 40 times bigger. The regional theater is provincial in name only. The Bristol Old Vic, for example, now has had three of its productions running in repertory in London this season, next year will perform three Shakespeare works on Broadway...
Skilled workers such as electricians and plumbers naturally command the best wages. Where they can, they jealously restrict admission to unions-and apprenticeship-to their own progeny. A recent Labor Department survey of apprenticeship programs in twelve major cities found only 16 Negroes training to be electricians, five learning plumbing, and two Negro apprentice sheet-metal workers. As a result, a typical city such as Chicago, with a Negro population greater than the entire population of Baltimore, has no Negro sheet-metal workers, only 40 Negro pipe fitters, 200 electricians...