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...While purists fret about academic standards, Mrs. Wexler firmly favors an open admissions policy at urban public colleges: "You can't discriminate on 'prior preparation' grounds any more than on economic grounds." She feels that "our country is one human family" that ought to teach the poor and culturally deprived as eagerly as it does the deaf or blind. By "culturally deprived," she means not only Negroes and Puerto Ricans but also whites who are deprived of the opportunity to learn about non-Western culture...
...Fret Aloud. At Moscow's behest, the government is attempting to justify the invasion by "documenting" the existence of an anti-socialist conspiracy last year. The party daily Rudé Právo, for example, last week quoted one speaker at a meeting of regional Communist district chiefs held in May 1968 as warning: "Right-wing opposition forces with varying degrees of anti-Communist and anti-socialist orientation are beginning to emerge on the political scene." The newspaper said that the speaker, who also noted that the Russians were justifiably worried about this trend, was none other than Alexander...
...those responding expressed fears about their ability to keep up with advanced technology. The growing pace of mergers has brought on another kind of anxiety known as "conglomerate psychosis." Many chief managers worry about how long there will be a company left for them to manage. Lower executives fret about keeping their jobs after a takeover. Then there is company involvement in urban affairs; executives are expected to participate KAISER MEDICAL OFFICE in community groups at the expense of their free time. Says Dr. L. S. Thompson Jr., a physician who treats executives of Dallas' Southland Life Insurance...
...furniture and utensils seem so modern that they are sought after and copied by architects and designers. Shaker villages were oases of austere grace and functionalism. "Wherever you go, you feel that you are beyond the realm of hurry," wrote one visitor in 1877. "There is no restlessness, or fret of business, or anxiety; it is as if the work was done, and it was one eternal afternoon...
Beset by critics and uncertain about the Nixon Administration's objectives in space, high NASA officials from Cape Kennedy to the Houston Manned Spacecraft Center mutter about quitting or fret about being laid off once the initial lunar landings are made. Internal feuds, once muted, are beginning to erupt in public; most notable was the resignation of Paul Haney, "the voice of Apollo." The NASA budget is down to $3.8 billion from its $5.9 billion 1966 peak. The army of skilled craftsmen, whom Wernher Von Braun calls 90% of NASA's investment, has dwindled from a high...