Word: du
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Adrian Du Plessis does not look much like a revolutionary. He has black-rimmed glasses, short, sandy-colored hair, a soft voice and prominent dimples when he smiles. Last week he was talking about the possibilities for social and political change in his native South Africa. He said he thought any change would necessarily mean "a major redistribution of wealth" from the ruling white elite to the African masses...
...Then Du Plessis abruptly broke off. "What I have just said lays me open to be tried for treason. Advocacy of any change in South Africa is treason." The words sounded strange coming from a quiet 23 year-old, sitting in the sun-lit living room of the Winthrop House guest suite...
...they are true. Du Plessis is one of three American representatives of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), one of the largest multi-racial organizations in South Africa which actively opposes the apartheid policies of the resume of Hendrik Verwoerd. About ten NUSAS members have been "detained" by the government in recent months under a law which enables police to hold citizens almost indefinitely without filing formal criminal charges. Last month the South African Security Police raided NUSAS head-quarters in Capetown, removing eight documents and recording several names. Also in recent months various government ministers have publicly...
Though management argues that labor alone has done little to enhance productivity, labor has contributed by becoming better skilled and schooled-with the help of management. Du Pont uses the new "teaching machines" to upgrade its blue collars so that when their jobs are made obsolete, they can shift over immediately to new ones. Kaiser Steel recently started to pay monthly bonuses for increases in productivity and reductions in production costs, has paid an average $524 per man so far this year, finds that workers now take noticeably greater pains to prevent costly mechanical breakdowns...
Nonsense! "It is nonsense to say Hachette has prevented anyone from creating a newspaper," says Robert Meunier du Houssoy, 75, president of the company and great-grandson of Founder Hachette. "Why don't other people just go ahead and found...