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...brilliant mechanical engineer (Alabama Polytechnic, '22) with a long string of patents. Virginia-born William White Sproul Jr., 45, an electrical engineer, bosses the general industrial-products group, which includes elevators, airconditioning, plastics, small motors, etc. Appliances are under consumer products, run by ex-Adman John Meek McKibben, 51. Price is the overseer who keeps the top echelon pulling together, holds it responsible for meeting goals. All of them sit in on the overall management committee, which determines how high Westinghouse should set its sights for expansion...
Three-Year Dictatorship. For 20 minutes Naguib spoke, while overhead jets ripped across rooftops. Then at a signal the crowd rose and repeated after him Egypt's new creed, the Liberation Oath: "Almighty God, you love the strong and detest the meek. You spread your mercy over those who prefer to die in dignity for the sake of liberty to a life of dishonor in a realm of bondage . . . We swear by Thy Holy Name to work to our utmost [for a country] free from wicked passions and compatible with what is right and just . . . Our motto shall always...
Once upon a time there was a poor man. He was not meek in spirit, but lazy, mean, vituperative and usually drunk. He stood all day long, a beggar, by the church in a little French town, and when anyone gave him alms, he was apt to curse and spit and swipe at them with his stick for thanks. Everybody despised him, and he despised everybody...
...Schumacher has great admiration for what she calls "the democracy in American education." In this country, she finds the relationship between teacher and student far more healthy and constructive than in Europe. "American teachers have much more respect for the student. Students don't learn to be meek and mousey: they're invited to speak up. In Germany, the teacher is the master, the pupil is a little 'pimpf'. The master-servant relationship in the German school and family was the Hitler regime on a small scale, a preparation...
Everybody in the U.S. hasn't got a TV set-not by a long shot. Then why have TV sales slowed down? Chicago TV manufacturer John Meek turned his researchers loose in Washington, D.C., and got some depressing news. Nonowners cheerfully reported that they watch television an average of twelve hours a week in the homes of friends, and therefore have no very strong incentive...