Word: crediters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shopping list of a village's needs, getting the people to sign it, then a week later claiming that the list has fallen into government hands. The whole village, the Reds say, will go to prison unless it accepts Communist "protection." Sometimes, the guerrillas even try to claim credit for the new schools and roads that the government is building in the Northeast. "You would never get them without us," one terrorist told a crowd. "They show the government is afraid...
...least one aspect of the undergraduate rebellion-student demands for new and more relevant course offerings-is generally embraced and welcomed by faculty and administrators. Not only do students now sit on many curriculum committees, but their interests are being reflected in countless new courses that carry regular academic credit...
...were seminars on "Ideology and Utopia" and "Anarchism and Fascism." The City College of New York is offering two courses on music of the Orient taught by Indian Sitarist Ravi Shankar, and, for the first time, an interdepartmental major in oceanography. The Political Science Club at Northwestern secured academic credit for students to work in Springfield as aides to Illinois legislators...
AMERICANS believe in numbers. As a democracy, the U.S. chooses its leaders statistically, so to speak, by the simple process of counting votes. Numbers measure the economy, record social progress, identify people on credit card rolls and bank accounts. "In a numerically conscious society," says Rand Corp. Researcher Amrom H. Katz, "progress is measured by numbers, not by quality...
...chance came at Boston's troubled Raytheon Co., where he hired on in 1956 as executive vice president with orders from the electronics company's president, Charles Francis Adams, to "make some money." Geneen tightened up Raytheon's cost controls, arranged fresh credit from the banks, squeezed out new working capital. He saw to it that Raytheon paid its bills on time, to take advantage of the standard prompt-payment discount; at the same time he insisted that Raytheon's debtors pay up pronto. Anxious to infect the entire company with his own profit consciousness, Geneen...