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...Implicit in Planner Wolfe's proposals, he concedes, is the creation of "a number of mood rooms in the shopping environ ment, and, to put it drastically, even a little bit of 'ye olde,' or, as for example is happening on the West Coast, the in dulgence in 'Japanesery.' This may even be tolerable, although derivative, eclectic, or full of gimcracks, when the alternatives are considered ... the chrome and glass, spit and polish, modular articulated, cur tain wall, mechanistic, slick finish, straight and endless directions which are spring ing up around...
Labor leaders are less than enthusiastic about this provision, too. Why, they wonder, should men put out of work by competition from imports receive special attention? Implicit in this objection is a strong dissent from the President's reliance on trade to solve the problem of Creeping Unemployment. Reuther's statement last week-end, that he would seek a national 35-hour week unless something serious was done about the problem, reflects this dissatisfaction...
Down the Drain. From that moment on, Laos was on the way down the Communist drain. And from that moment the military threat to South Viet Nam and Thailand was implicit...
...MERGERS. Implicit in Kennedy's message was a more relaxed Washington attitude toward railroad and airline mergers that would help to eliminate duplicate facilities. Where the Government has previously tended to focus chiefly on the antitrust aspects of mergers, greater weight now seems likely to be given to purely economic considerations. The President pointedly ignored requests by the rail unions that he restrain mergers which might endanger jobs...
Although we feel that a certain maturing process takes place during a student's four years at college, we disagree with the implicit definition of this process expressed in the "Holmes letter." Hopefully, maturing is not a matter of eventual compliance to rules that one has been coerced to follow. It involves a personal decision as to one's individual position, not passive conformity to social pressures...