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...surprisingly, the Coop's success story has involved a radical transformation of its goals and organization. The communal service of the original student-run cooperative has gone the way of valet service and wholesome meals in Harvard dining halls, to be replaced with the scientific business management that considers efficiency and profits the hallmark of successful enterprise. The Harvard Cooperative Society has entered the league of department stores like Jordan Marsh and Filene's, two of its Boston competitors. The Coop often selects its managers from among graduates of the nation's top business schools, and their tight-fisted handling...
...that. "Why, in the Middle Ages," says Rudofsky, "people ate their dinner, conducted business, feuded, made love and even held wedding banquets in their tubs with the guests half-submerged in the water." Rudofsky also frowns on the chlorination, artificial scents and hygienic filters favored by contemporary communal splashers. Says he: "Americans have a long way to go in overcoming the Puritan disgrace over a simple convivial bath combining hot water, naked bodies and good food...
...Indira Gandhi was on the move, doing what she does best: taking her case to the people. In a series of appearances in Jammu and Kashmir, one of the states with a non-Congress government, she smoothed over differences with Sheik Abdullah, the aging Lion of Kashmir, and blamed communal tensions on hard-line Muslim and Hindu factions. To demonstrate her government's concern over the strife, Mrs. Gandhi last week reconvened the National Integration Council, a non-sectarian group that includes leaders with different religious and political affiliations...
...Gandhi also flew to the southern state of Kerala, where she attributed the current problems to her predecessors. "We have communal riots, high prices, unemployment left over from the wrong policies of the Janata and Lok Dal governments," she told listeners, who bedecked her with flower garlands. "We cannot allow antisocial elements, smugglers, hoarders, profiteers to gain the upper hand as happened under Janata...
Citing those "antisocial elements," as well as "communal disharmony, caste conflicts, atrocities against minorities" and other activities that "pose a grave threat to the lawful order," her government two months ago proclaimed a tough new national security law. The ordinance permits the preventive detention, for ten days without charge and for up to a year without trial, of anyone considered to be a threat to public security...