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...district. Company executives see an even more practical gain. In army camps, says Toshio Shiba-yama, director of Tokyo Mutual, "young people are bound to learn something about the vital importance of team work." This spring, for the third year in a row, Japan Air Lines sent its new crop of employees to an artillery camp. Company President Shizuma Matsuo calls it "an exceedingly effective means of inculcating a right kind of corporate esprit de corps." Last week 40 new workers of Iwasaki Electric Co., soldiered with the First Airborne Group...
...Stones crop out all over, and one feels not only the weight of them but also their sublapidary meaning. In Lowell's vision, Moses' tablets of the law become "the stones we cannot bear or break." The great slab of rock upon which Prometheus is chained by Jupiter for his technological hubris in bringing fire from heaven is the center stage of Lowell's version of Aeschylus. Much of Lowell's poetry is indeed stony. It is hard with the condemnation of his age and his society. Just as his confessionals are far beyond personal confession...
...army combat troops in Viet Nam is more than double the ratio of Negroes to whites in the U.S. population at large (23% v. 11%). That, according to the Negro G.I. himself and his officers, is because those who make it into military service are the "cream of the crop"-can-do, must-win competitors who volunteer for dangerous duty both for the premium pay and the extra status it gives them. "I get my jollies jumping out of airplanes," says one Negro paratrooper of his $55-a-month extra airborne pay. Unlike Negroes in previous wars, the Viet...
...Arkansas' state representatives are first-termers; in Utah, 56 of the 97 house and senate members are freshmen; 25 of Nevada's 60 lawmakers are sitting in the legislature for the first time. "It may be two or three legislatures from now before the new crop of lawmakers gain the experience necessary to make the system work," says a political veteran in Tennessee...
...arable; for centuries, that land was held by landlords and worked by tenant farmers. The Nationalist government of Chiang Kaishek, under a land-reform program, distributed small plots to the tenants-and encouraged landlords to invest their settlement money in industry. Now, with farmers keeping 80% of their crop v. 43% in the old days, rice production has increased from 20 tons an acre to 34 tons. Seeking to profit from a semitropical climate that allows four harvests a year, the government encouraged the island's 835,000 farm families to branch out from staple rice and sugar into...