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...pull the strings and add to or lessen my frustrations, strengthen or weaken, sharpen or blunt the weapon before it is handed to me; but it is I who have it. It is mine to shape and polish, inspire or confound, instruct or confuse, ready or sheathe, and employ wisely or foolishly...
...estimated 1.7%. One trouble was strikes, which cost the U.S. 37 million man-days, the most since 1952. But mainly, the U.S. economy was simply outgrowing its labor force. Despite 900,000 new additions in 1956, industry was scraping the bottom of the labor barrel, was often forced to employ marginal-and yet highly paid-workers. In the long run, businessmen are sure they can solve the problems. They know that productivity rises unevenly, that money spent to increase efficiency takes time to show up in the statistics. Thus, they expect the huge spending in 1956 to give productivity...
...higher. Farmers called, hoping for rain. Vacationers, picnickers, soft-drink bottlers and garden-party hostesses called, hoping for clear skies. Every year more weather facts are demanded and supplied: sailing conditions for yachtsmen, rainfall on watersheds. Newspapers and TV feature weather maps. Industries, department stores, oil companies and airlines employ meteorologists. The armed services, more at the mercy of weather than in foot-slogging days, keep thousands of them busy...
...event. Both of the intense plays are given masterful productions, maintaining the imagination of experimental theater without sacrificing admirably high standards. The quality is, although the Workshop hates the word, usually professional. Indeed the only real complaint one can make about the Workshop's productions is that they conspicuously employ as stars and director several students already well established in the HDC, thus assuring polish but slightly displacing the idea of the Workshop designed to find and train new faces. But minor complaints cannot obscure the distinction of the Workshop's Emperor Jones and The Purification...
...former Chairman of the Board of Inland Steel Co. stressed the need for a "broad cultivation of the mind" of the potential executive. "Industry does not employ a young man for what he knows, but rather for his proven capacity to learn," he said. This capacity, he added, would be developed regardless of the specific nature of the student's studies...