Word: piped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Video can be equally useful in pointing up the significance of silence. After a wife complained that her husband showed no reaction when she spoke to him, Berger replayed a tape made at a previous joint therapy session. In the rerun, the wife talked while her husband held his pipe in clenched fingers and tamped down the tobacco with a jabbing motion that in retrospect revealed a "squelched inner fury...
...part, increased attention to the arts was M.I.T.'s response to criticism from students and faculty in the late 1960s about the institute's dependence on military research. But long after the critical voices fell silent, the arts continued to flourish, largely because of pipe-smoking, affable President Wiesner, 57. To him, "A person is much less of a human being if he thinks of himself only as a technocrat. Society needs the cognitive reaction of a poet as well as a technologist...
...Stakhanovites* had a powerful incentive. Last October Kaiser officials announced that the 4,000-ton-a-month plant was being shut down, a victim of rising costs and stiffening foreign competition; a ton of two-inch Fontana pipe that sold for $300 was being offered by Japanese mills for $240. Recalls Dino Papavero, president of United Steelworkers Local 2869: "We asked management to give us a chance to make the mill...
Kaiser executives agreed to postpone the closing and adopt a few worker suggestions. A traveling saw that cut pipe into sections after it left the furnace was repaired and overhauled at a cost of only $3,000. Workers had been asking for the adjustments for years; once they were made, spoilage dropped from 29% of output to 9%. In addition, a few storage racks and inspection tables were rearranged to permit a smoother flow of work. Two crucial but low-paid employees who operated a pipe straightening machine were given raises from $3.70 to $4.07 an hour. And the workers...
Still, the successful experiment may fail to keep the plant open. Because labor accounts for only one-ninth of the cost of making Fontana pipe, increased productivity has trimmed the price of the finished product by only some $11 a ton. "That isn't the $60 it would take to match Japan's price," says Robinson. Kaiser executives refuse to disclose when a final decision will be made on the mill's fate. For the moment, Fontana workers are hustling and hoping on a day-to-day basis...