Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There are the "city" men in bowlers and striped trousers, far too many of them. Then there are the social inferiors: "commerce" men. Until the class system is removed from business, the worker will continue to meet management with a built-in grudge, and commerce will not attract the level of businessmen that it needs. As an itinerant Englishman, I find the North American system far healthier. R. SANDERSON Montreal...
...quickest way to change Lyndon Johnson's mind about a high-level appointment is to predict who the man will be. In the case of a successor to Robert McNamara, newsmen and Washington officials alike were doubly leary of trying to read the President's mind. Even so, more than a few observers were warily-and hopefully-raising the name of Cyrus Roberts Vance, the former Deputy Defense Secretary whom Johnson had drafted for an arduous diplomatic assignment in Cyprus (see THE WORLD) well after Mc-Namara's departure was decided...
...counts himself one of the fortunate exceptions to the general retirement practice: professional men, such as physicians and lawyers, and the self-employed, such as small businessmen and farmers, can go on working as long as they want. Far different is the situation of countless men at all levels in business and industry. On an arbitrary date, the executive who yesterday was worth $200,000 a year is worth nothing but his pension. The blue-collar worker may begin to draw social security, but it is not enough to live on; if he works part time and earns from...
Some faculty members argue that the 560 cutoff level is ludicrously low and that Harvard should make up its mind whether to take the requirement seriously or abandon it entirely...
...unwilling to scratch the requirement, the HPC recommends that they at least reduce it to one course for all sudents. Failing that, the HPC says that the second language course a student is required to take should count for upper level Gen Ed credit...