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When it comes to staging military coups, Honduras' swarthy Army Commander General Oswaldo López Arellano, 53, has had plenty of on-the-job training. In 1963 he overthrew the liberal government of Dr. Ramón Villeda Morales in order to end what the general described as "flagrant violations of the constitution." López's eight-year rule was notable mostly for the four-day "football war" with its neighbor El Salvador in 1969, a skirmish that started after Honduras claimed that its honor had been insulted during a soccer game between the two countries...
...Manhattan's famous High School of Performing Arts. That led after graduation to a job as an understudy off-Broadway, and that led absolutely nowhere. For a year, Vereen worked in the mail room of a motion-picture company, vainly hoping that somebody would notice his loud on-the-job singing, then he landed a spot in a small-town Pennsylvania production of West Side Story. There he found his first and, so far, only experience of discrimination in the theater. "I wanted to play Riff," he complains, "but they said I couldn't play the part because...
...outlook on life is at odds with the content of many jobs today. Most white collar work involves elemental, mind-numbing clerical operations. Factory work is usually dull and repetitive, and too often dirty, noisy, demeaning and dangerous as well. It is a national scandal that last year on-the-job accidents killed 14,200 U.S. workers. In most auto assembly plants, a worker must even get permission from his foreman before he can go to the bathroom. The four-day week offers no real prospect for humanizing work; doing a boring job for four days instead of five...
...hell is it?" Democratic Representative Lionel Van Deerlin, a longtime advocate of strong public TV, last week greeted CPB'S new boss with understandable sarcasm: "It seems about the same as selecting to coach the Washington Redskins someone who detests football. Let us hope for some avid on-the-job training." Other critics saw Loomis' appointment as a victory for the commercial stations, which presumably will now have less worry about popular public broadcasting shows stealing their Nielsen ratings-and their profits...
IMPROVE ITS INDUSTRIAL SAFETY. The U.S. has a scandalously bad record in this area. On-the-job accidents caused 14,200 deaths last year; in addition, 2,300,000 workers suffered disabling injuries on the job, and some of the victims will undoubtedly die prematurely as a result. These numbers could be reduced if the Government forced the states to adopt stricter laws to prevent such accidents. Federal law should control not only dangerous tools and machines but also cancer-inducing chemical fumes and asbestos particles. Congress last year put into effect a new Occupational Safety and Health Act. While...