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...business. At the same time he has taken pride in hiring and training the handicapped and others usually considered unemployable, many of them eligible for welfare payments. More than half of Paulucci's employees in Duluth, Minn., are missing fingers, must wear neck or leg braces, or are deaf mutes, mentally retarded, partially blind, alcoholics or ex-prisoners. As a result, the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped and the National Association of Manufacturers have just picked Paulucci to receive the Employer of the Year citation...
Most of all, complainers as individuals should not lose heart. They should learn to suppress that feeling of embarrassment, the worry about what other people will think of them. If the neighbors are playing their radio at a level that suggests that they are deaf, pound on the wall. Or ring their doorbell and expostulate in calm, well-reasoned tones. If a bargain gadget advertised for sale turns out to be not as advertised, arm yourself with the advertisement and demand redress. Faced with an outrageous bill for a crankcase repair, demand to see the "flatrate manual" used...
...gift was obtained at great psychic expense. Wilson's father was a prominent lawyer whose career dissolved in mental illness. Soon after, Wilson's mother-who gave him the detestable sobriquet "Bunny"-went mysteriously deaf. Journalism became consolation, then a career. After Princeton, he reported for the New York Evening Sun, then joined Vanity Fair. Later, as critic at the New Republic, he made the original assessments that launched America's literary renaissance. Wilson was the first important critic to recognize the fragile talent of a fellow Princetonian. "F. Scott Fitzgerald," he wrote in 1922, "has been...
Even though he is deaf and almost blind, Inönü will be missed in the corridors of power. Because of his vast prestige as a national hero, Inönü was probably the only Turkish politician with enough stature to apply a moderating pressure on the generals, who may now be tempted to take an even greater role in the country's internal affairs in order to crack down on leftist dissent...
...Asia. To be sure, the American corporate state created Richard Nixon, but the monster has been set loose: he and his tiny coterie of advisors, and they alone, are responsible for the continued insanity. And although they might in fact defer on occasion to the corporate princes, they are deaf to the opinions of the American people...