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...York City's "Calvin Coolidge High" is an anachronism, up-to-date only in its paperwork. The guidance counselor records students' negative motivations; the nurse, their positive Wassermanns. But the faculty's interest is , more clerical than clinical, and even dropouts are a problem more of tabulation than of salvation. After 15 years of teaching in schools like Coolidge, Bel Kaufman, a granddaughter of Yiddish Author Sholom Aleichem, in 1962 published a satirical anthology (From a Teacher's Wastebasket) of staff directives, lesson plans, and faculty memos, and she has now extended it to novel length...
With jets, bosses move about more because they can fly out and back fast enough to prevent piled-up paperwork. "We now have a tendency to make a trip for a two-day meeting that we would have put off before," says Lear Siegler Vice President John J. Burke. At Bell & Howell, six ranking officers will use the ordinarily dead week after Christmas for a jet swing to pep meetings in Cleveland, New York and Los Angeles, returning to Chicago in time for New Year's with their families. Many travelers never glimpse the city in which they have...
...copying machines. It can be fairly certain about one thing: the market for copies will grow as fast as the competition. Paper has proliferated so much in U.S. corporations that it costs tens of billions of dollars yearly to handle, $5 billion to file. The temptation to multiply paperwork is so great that those totals are expected to double in the next decade...
...people. Last week, as government officials everywhere stewed over what to do, France's overbuilt bureaucracy took a few steps to ease its Crise du Loge-ment. It freed some state lands for housing development, announced a major slum-razing and rebuilding program, and sliced back the paperwork that now stymies building permits for up to two years...
When they looked out from under this mountain of paperwork and saw the President of the U.S. turning off unnecessary lights in the White House, a lot of businessmen decided that he was the kind of man who would understand their problem. So they began deluging him with letters asking that the Government also try to economize on the forms and questionnaires that they must deal with (sometimes under pain of stiff penalties). They read their man right. President Johnson has declared war on excessive paperwork for businessmen, promising to simplify reports and eliminate them when possible. The first progress...