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...George Meany. "Our experience has been that the employer becomes very civic-minded, very patriotic and says, 'No, I can't give you any more than a certain percentage.' " Moreover, when there are no guidelines, manufacturers are able to set high prices and union leaders are freer to strike for hefty settlements without arousing a public outcry or getting into an argument with the President. Without the Ford Administration committing itself one way or the other, 80,000 General Motors workers last week walked out of 16 plants for a few hours and won a settlement that...
...says it is similar to psychotherapy, because the person is willing to face herself, and is committed to liberating herself for a healthier, freer life. In the midst of contradictory, alienating experiences, a surrender makes possible a deeper unity in living...
Another plus for today's South, says Heard, is a freer "market of intellectual talent than before. Southerners are moving all over the country and non-Southerners are moving into the South." One intellectual who has returned is Sheldon Hackney, 42, a Southern historian who became provost of Princeton, then moved to New Orleans to become president of Tulane. He and his wife, Hackney says, "always knew we would like to come back to the South and see what we could contribute...
...Freer Sex. The clergymen still turned out by the Big Five, says the report, go through training that has lost much of its onetime scholarly rigor. Elective courses have proliferated as the schools try to please students with incoherent vocational goals. At the same time, language requirements and basic required courses in the Bible, church history and doctrine have vanished. Students learn a little about a lot, but never master any one religious tradition. The schools provide "general education for those interested in a diffuse variety of religious studies, personal quests for the meaning of life, social activism and pastorally...
...scene has also changed drastically. The student body is no longer a community, but "an unsorted collection of groups and individuals." With the "radical decline" in chapel attendance at seminaries, students only rarely worship together. "Manners," says the report, "are more relaxed, sex freer, and acquaintance with drugs often more than theoretical...