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Under terms of the agreement, the Kurds will govern their own territory and send delegates to the next Parliament. The Kurdish language will enjoy official status along with Arabic. "This is no temporary armistice," said Bakr. "This is a complete political and constitutional settlement of all existing problems, and it will prevail forever." In Iraq, forever may not mean all it appears to. A 1966 truce between the government and Kurds proved short-lived when Baghdad reneged on its promises...
...Protestant Ethic," says Abraham Zaleznik, a professor at the Harvard Business School. To some, the Protestant Ethic?hard work is a virtue for its own sake?appears to have been replaced by an almost Mediterranean spirit, a spreading belief that men should work no more than they must to enjoy the good life and worldly pleasures. "There has been a steady and consistent reduction in the commitment of men to work as a way of life," says Lane Kirkland, secretary-treasurer of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. "That movement has accelerated in recent times. The expansion of paid leisure time will continue...
...only people who thoroughly enjoy being assistants-to are vampires. The assistant-to recommends itself to the weak or lazy manager as a crutch. It helps him where he shouldn't and can't be helped- head-to-head contact with his people...
Fiction Factory. To enjoy so many activities and still turn out as many as 7,000 words a day, Gardner exercised cast-iron discipline. As part of what he called his "fiction factory," on a 1,000-acre ranch at Temecula, Calif., he kept up to seven full-time secretaries busy transcribing the novels he dictated into a battery of tape recorders. For privacy, he worked in strategically located trailers and houseboats. When his first wife died in 1968, one of his secretaries, Agnes Jean Bethell, became Mrs. Gardner. She had come to work...
Although the Pierian Sodality may no longer serenade fair ladies, the members still manage to enjoy themselves. There was the 1962 Mexican tour, 1965 Midwest tour, 1966 Washington, D. C. tour, 1968 Cape Cod concert, and last year's tour with concerts at Georgetown in Washington, D. C., an inaugural concert in the new hall at Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, and a concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Members of the orchestra will never forget the 12-hour bus ride from Cambridge to Washington ("I'm sorry," they said at the Howard Johnson Restaurant...