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...imagery of the visitors' PX: the white gleam of refrigerators and stove enamel, the iconography of GE and Hoover, so utterly different from the traditional dimness of the Japanese house and the mandatory drabness of wartime, with its austerity colors and nocturnal blackout. On a popular level, the war had caused an immense disenchantment with traditional Japanese architecture, wood and paper: "weak" materials, which burned. Concrete and steel were the substances of a victor culture, and the huge termitary cities of Japan were rebuilt with them...
...management formula worked so well that the company in the 1960s came to be known as Snow White while its competitors were derisively dubbed the Seven Dwarfs. The dwarfs (Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data, Honeywell, General Electric and RCA) dwindled to five when GE and RCA quit the computer business in the 1970s, and the others are now collectively referred to by their first initials as the BUNCH...
...eleven, French children face a decisive phase of their education. They enter what is called collège, and are considered to be in an "observation" cycle for two years. At the end of this period, teachers sort them into those who will get vocational training and those who will go to a lycée for university preparation. Says Monique Bertin-Mourot, a press officer at the Ecole des Parents, an organization that deals with family and school problems: "Parents know that if the child doesn't get the right orientation early...
...overspeculation," yet he is not bearish about the overall market trend. He foresees some degree of correc ion, but not the 10% to 15% anticipated by many of his Wall Street colleagues. He still strongly favors blue-chip companies that will benefit most from a slowdown in inflation: IBM, GE, American Bell and 3M. Lower oil prices and interest rates, he says, could keep the bulls going. Biggs last week, using Churchill's famous quote, said the bull market had not reached the "beginning of the end" but the "end of the beginning...
...both the Corporation and the student-faculty-alumni ACSR voted against largely symbolic shareholder resolutions asking companies to curb their nuclear weapons work. They argued that nuclear arms policy was the province of the government, not the private sector. Last year, however, the ACSR approved several similar resolutions concerning GE, Du Pont, and AT&T, and the Corporation, not wanting to abruptly renege on past policy, abstained on strong messages to the three major companies...