Word: kaufmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...survey of defense profits coincides with the publication of a new book by Richard Kaufman, economist counsel for the Congressional Joint Economic Committee and a longtime critic of military spending. In The War Profiteers (Bobbs-Merrill; $8.50), Kaufman contends that defense contractors have "learned to make large amounts, and in some cases the largest amounts, of their profits practically undetected by old-fashioned auditing methods." They do so, he says, by padding costs, using Government equipment for commercial work, and persuading the Pentagon to cover cost overruns...
Pentagon officials have long conceded that there are bound to be some "horror stories" among the approximately 22,000 contracts that the military services let each year. Kaufman insists that "literally every contract is a horror story." He cites case after case of overruns, from the Gama Goat, an amphibious cargo carrier that cost $304 million more than expected to develop, to the C-5A and General Dynamics' F-111 fighter-bombers, which went up from $4,000,000 to $13.7 million each...
...Mike, 17, frequently draw family members doing things alone in separate rooms instead of together. Mike also showed his mother at work in the kitchen with her back turned, and he drew himself " 'stealing' food (love) from the cold refrigerator." When they first took him to Psychiatrist Kaufman, Mike's parents insisted that the family was close. But they finally admitted to Kaufman what their son's drawings made painfully clear -that they "didn't give a damn what happened to Mike...
...another drawing, Billy, 14, revealed how he felt when his mother remarried. Her new husband had children of his own, and the family was polarized into two camps. Write Kaufman and Burns: "The boy must be aware of the sexual relationship between the stepfather and the mother, as the sword between the stepfather's legs is the largest weapon in the drawing." Billy, obviously jealous, drew himself throwing darts at his stepfather. The darts were very small and could do no harm; the boy must therefore have realized how powerless he was. That feeling of impotence, the authors...
...ironing-board syndrome" is also a familiar motif in kinetic family drawings. Kaufman and Burns think it may represent the heat of mother love, longed for but dangerous. In what some therapists will consider a farfetched interpretation, the authors attribute the X shape of the ironing board's legs-and other X shapes in the drawings-to the child's X-ing out or saying no to his sexual impulses...