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...many of HEW's other plague spots, the emotional disturbance at Mental Health involved both personality conflicts and political interference in scientific and medical matters. As director of the institute since 1964, Yolles was accused of arbitrarily imposing his views, rather than winning acceptance for them. The byword at NIMH became: "What Yolles wants, Yolles gets." He might have got more-and still be in office today-if he had been willing occasionally to settle for less...
...only a folk festival. The actors beneath their specially grown beards and long hair, are simple Bavarian villagers. The script is amateurishly florid. Yet the once-a-decade production of the Passion Play at Oberammergau, Germany, has long been a byword for Roman Catholic piety−and a major international tourist attraction. Ticket demands for this season's 98 performances exceed the supply by about 1,000,000. The 500,-000 or so visitors who will throng the area are expected to spend more than $10 million−enough to keep Oberammergau going through the next nine lean years...
...vending machines. But surely the telephones and, until the 1965 Northeastern blackout, the lights. Here mass production was born, the assembly line for good or ill became the modern cornucopia, and Henry Ford once reigned as the leading culture hero. Around the world American efficiency became a byword; at home it came close to being a religion, and wasted time was considered a sin. Only in America could it have occurred to that most idealistic of Presidents, Woodrow Wilson, to praise "clear, disinterested thinking and fearless action" by describing them as "spiritual efficiency...
...plan to reform this outmoded structure. Just as he broke the resistance of France's colonial army to end the Algerian war, he was intent on breaking the power and influence of its dominant bourgeoisie to end the chasm be tween the monied and working classes. The byword of that campaign, one of the countless phrases that passed from De Gaulle's lips and into the consciousness of all France, was participation. It soon came to mean everything from worker representation on management boards to reducing the hold of small-town notables on local governments by the creation...
...called, has seemed like a permanent institution of the Israel Labor Party and Israeli life for 40 years. Granite-willed, forceful and disconcertingly direct, she is more respected than popular, and as uncompromising in public policy as she is in private principle. While it is a byword in government offices that "no one ever crosses Golda," no one who knows her is surprised at her egalitarian insistence, in the privacy of her home, of having her maid and chauffeur share her table, kibbutz-style. An opposition gibe that "all government decisions are cooked in Golda's kitchen" is obviously...