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...enterprises outright, there are no stockholders to force a change in his ways. He never sees the press, and at National Bulk Carriers, his main operating company in the U.S., executives will cheerfully deny that they know anyone named Ludwig. Says a senior executive who left his employ this year: "Mr. Ludwig organizes his business as a system of separate cells. The members of one cell do not usually know that the others exist, except by rumor. Only Mr. Ludwig knows the full extent of his empire, and how it all fits together...
...meeting, the worried teachers requested the "School Committee andthe City Council to employ any means necessary including police or security guards to settle the atmosphere in the schools so we may get on with the business of education...
Those sequences which employ metaphor also have limited success, for their meaning comes less from their formal mode than from a semi-representational correspondence to real events. One sequence finds Berto singing scales on "oh." Leaud, standing directly behind her, begins to strangle her and say "ah"; she falters, begins brokenly saying "ah," and with Leaud's approval ends singing scales on "ah." Because the sequence represents something far more awful than the action it presents, it cannot avoid a note of falseness. It is not at all suggestive formally because the meaning to which it refers bears no relation...
...assigned to keep up with more than 60 school systems. In recent weeks, federal courts have made limited progress. They have outlawed sex segregation in Coffeeville, Miss., and Concordia Parish, La. (the practice continues in several Georgia counties). They have also ruled that merging school systems must continue to employ black principals and teachers instead of demoting or firing them and hiring whites...
...that we will face these conditions here before three years are over, the United States is currently a facsimile of a liberal democracy. Rights of free speech and assembly-although subjected to increasing pressure-are still defensible and those who can muster attention and an adequate defense may still employ the tricks in our legal system to shield themselves from repression. The trial of the Chicago Eight, though disgraceful, is still a long way from the Nuremberg Trials in pre-war Germany...