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NONFICTION 1. The Money Game, 'Adam Smith...
...attitudes toward life that now haunt modern Africa's advancement. The Ibos developed a culture that stressed personal competition, and are thus born overachievers. In contrast, a Fang finds individual excellence so reprehensible that the talented are treated as outsiders or even outlaws. Yoruba see nothing wrong with saving money, while the Tiv see worthwhile wealth only in the number of women they acquire. French Sociologist Jacques Binet found the forest people of Gabon "afraid of wealth: the possession of money was sinful to them...
...industry, it is not only a matter of getting people to work whose tribal ethics disdain labor or money. "Africanized" companies have other personnel problems. Where once an African hand would take orders from a white, he now loathes doing so from a black foreman of another tribe. Too-youthful management also goes down hard with tribesmen accustomed to the rule of the senior elder...
...chanh, or "rallier to the true national cause," spends his first six to eight weeks in a Chieu Hoi center. He is given two sets of clothing, entertained with tours, television and basic educational films, and granted $1.60 a month pocket money. The defector is also rewarded according to a fixed bounty scale for whatever he brings with him. A pistol is worth $10, an automatic rifle $62, and an 82-mm. mortar $500. One happy ex-Communist became an instant capitalist when he collected $16,000 for pointing the way to a sizable arms cache...
...Outrages are educational," says Whyte. Too, new state and federal laws designed to conserve open soace have been enacted, and many localities have devised ways of protecting or enlarging their holdings. Even subdividers have learned that it pays to cluster, rather than spread, houses over their tracts. They save money by not having to develop all of their property-and customers are happy to give up a small backyard for a large view...