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...have been countless new examples of leadership, imagination and dedication on a lesser scale: in smaller communities, in many organizations, in business. The gallery of rising American leaders that appears following this story contains many examples. Thus there should be hope for the emergence of a new generation of leaders???if only, somehow, the stubborn obstacles in their path could be understood and reduced...
...prison for violent and ugly crimes; many were there for lesser offenses. Yet by and large, at Attica they were treated without distinction, as numbers or niggers or animals to be caged. Most penologists point out that the key to dealing with inmates is to know them?and their leaders???well. In the end, the major failure at Attica may be that the authorities simply did not know what the desperate men behind their walls really wanted, thought or felt. Until the uprising became another symbol of America's many agonies, all too few seemed to care ?at Attica...
...union members, tentatively support the pay freeze (see box, page 12). Their patience augurs well for a smoothly running freeze period and apparently provides Nixon, initially at least, with the broad consensus that he needs. It also indicates that the first intemperate remarks of Meany, Woodcock and other labor leaders???which were gradually toned down?did indeed, as the Administration claimed, put them "out of step" with ordinary union members...
...little man's traditional distrust of those with power?whether they are national or even union leaders???was also voiced. "Nixon's program is unfair, discriminatory and economically idiotic," says Los Angeles' Arywitz. "The other day somebody?oh, yes, it was that other idiot, Agnew?said that what's good for America is good for the worker. Since 95% of all Americans are workers, we take the position that what's good for the worker is good for America." Says Earl Shaw, a Berkeley typesetter: "Meany is so far removed from the workingman. Organized labor leaders are too much...
Much the same applies to the next layer of Soviet leaders???the 150 or so party first secretaries of the regions and republics. More than half of them have no direct experience whatsoever in managing economic enterprises. They generally have spent most of their lives in the party apparatus, which the University of Toronto's Lewis Feuer aptly describes as "the ambitious mediocracy." In party ranks, advancement is awarded most often to the wily and tough, not to the thoughtful or the innovative...