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...fighters, one where "who has good luck is good, who has bad luck is bad," where trusting people is stupid, where man masters man only through violence. This is the rule; the exception is anything humane, honest, and free. Hence Langmann cannot believe that the coolie offers him his canteen: Langmann thinks that the coolie has a rock and intends to kill him. Society concurs; at Langmann's trial, the Judge decides that "such is the rule: an eye for an eye. Only a fool waits for the exception. A man of sense would not expect something to drink from...
Subject to court approval, the parts to be severed are the Canteen Corp., Grinell Corp.'s fire protection division, Avis (Rent a Car) Inc., ITT-Levitt home builders, and the Hamilton and ITT life insurance companies. Geneen will have two years to dispose of the first two firms, three years for the rest. The divestiture, which ends three Justice Department lawsuits against ITT, is one of the largest trust-bustings in American corporate history. The subcompanies ITT will lose account for about $1 billion in annual sales, or about one-seventh of the conglomerate's total...
...then went shopping all over the world for incipient talent to train. He also began establishing procedures which are, in the customarily authoritarian world of classical ballet, curiously family-like and informal. Deliberately, Cranko keeps no office of his own; instead he conducts daily gab sessions at the theater canteen where, over humdrum food and endless cups of coffee, he and his young dancers, drawn from 20 different countries, exchange ideas. The director encourages them to plan their own ways of interpreting his creations...
White friendships the black soldier makes drinking from the same canteen or ducking the same bullets are not as evident as they were three years ago when I first went to Vietnam. A few whites today refer to "my soul brothers" and make the black power sign. But most black soldiers don't expect such friendships to change the racist world to which he will return...
When an Asian student attends an art class, for instance, he hears ostensibly sane Aussies discussing painting styles like mon (modern) and airpstrek (abstract). At lunchtime in the campus canteen, the visitor may hear a local student ask: "Gottiny semmitches?" "Air," says the counter girl. "Emeny jiwant?" Student: "Gimme utter martyr and an airman pickle." Thanks to the mare chick of communications, the girl duly produces a tomato and a ham and pickle sandwich...