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...country where age has traditionally been an important criterion for industrial command, Hon da Motor Co. was long conspicuous for the youth of its leadership; Soichiro Honda founded the company in 1948 when he was only 42. Now, having built it into a colossus with sales of $1.2 billion a year, he is returning the company to the junior side of the generation gap by retiring at 67 and turning over the reins to Kiyoshi Kawashima, 45, a quiet, self-deprecating engineer who at 45 is at least 15 years younger than most Japanese chief executives...
...score 120 by the end of adolescence; the child with an I.Q. of 130 may drop to 120 by age eighteen. Beyond late adolescence the I.Q. itself is meaningless, and the modern widespread testing of I.Q. among late adolescents and young adults as a criterion for admission to universities is particularly harmful, since history shows that many persons who later made enormous contributions to society did poorly on I.Q. tests and were excluded from universities. These remarks do not mean that if an industrial firm requires specific capacities in a worker, or a university department needs certain capabilities...
...southern historian, Donald says, begins his search with "an emotional resonance," and southern history becomes a peculiar problem of personal identity. Yet emotional commitment is a basic criterion for historians in general: "You have to have something at stake as you wade through raw material on any topic...
...create a nonprofit subscription service that will mail banned magazines-Playboy included-to readers who can no longer buy them locally. He also plans to launch an "army" of college students who will conduct door-to-door surveys in censored areas to collect local attitudes toward sexual tolerance-a criterion that the Supreme Court said could determine the range of sexual material allowed in local communities. Finally, said Guccione, the September issue of Penthouse will carry "its nudest cover...
...disruption of lawful governments and a wide repertory of other "dirty tricks"-were perceived as necessary in the worldwide contest posed by aggressive Communism. When the same techniques were directed toward the activities of U.S. citizens at home who were suspected of subversion, the principle became obscure; the criterion, in the absence of any other, remained national security...