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...Action." Like many utopias before it. Washington Square Village fell short of its promise. The "carports" and "self-contained shopping" promised in the brochure failed to materialize. Ten ants complained of "tinny" stoves, faulty airconditioning, erratic elevators, bugs in the basement, cracks in the plaster, rips in the corridor wall covering...
...corridor outside his bedroom door, the air force colonel commanding the Premier's personal guard waited for his 3 a.m. deadline to arrest his boss. He did not hear the phone ring at Menderes' bedside. The call-from a district mili tary commander-passed along a warning tip from Menderes' loyal army chief. General Rustu Erdelhun. Menderes dressed and tiptoed into the adjoining room, where his Finance Minister, Hasan Polatkan, slept. Together they planned their flight...
Parliamentary democracy. Japanese-style, makes even the convening of the Diet an occasion for free-for-alls in which any number may play. When the bell sounded for the showdown session, 200 opposition Deputies massed outside the office of wispy Speaker Ichiro Kiyose, 76, blocking the corridor so solidly that he could not get out to call the session to order. Kiyose called the police. On signal, 500 cops entered, picked up the Socialists and carried them kicking and struggling from Kiyose's door. The Speaker made a run for the chamber only to be met there by more...
...Goal: More Growth. The Bakalar brothers run their three plants, which employ 4,300 workers, with an informal touch. In their rambling Wakefield, Mass, headquarters, which was once an underwear mill, the Bakalars share a secretary, avoid written memos, and do most of their business in corridor conferences with staff members. Decisions by Leo, 46, who serves as treasurer and chairman, and David, 34, who is president, have equal power. To justify the price of Transitron's stock (now selling at a steep 45 times projected 1960 earnings) the company is expected to diversify, use the 2.1 million shares...
...nobody is restricted because of mental illness alone: he must show definite signs of disturbance. When he does, the patients (at daily meetings) are usually the first to complain of it, vote to restrict him "behind the clock" (on the boundary wall between ward and corridor). It is by the patients' own decision that razor blades and pointed knives are not left in accessible places on the ward. Collectively, at least, the patients' internal controls are excellent. Adds Dr. Errichetti: "And every member of the staff has had to learn to control his own insecurity and paranoid feelings...