Word: preventives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Slumping into the rear seat, he was still wiping his eyes when he heard an ominous click: up front, behind his bulletproof plastic shield, the driver had flicked a switch that locked both rear doors electrically to prevent passengers from taking off before paying the fare. "Where to, fella?" asked a voice from a loudspeaker overhead. John told him. The trip to the office was uneventful, until John put his $10 bill in a revolving tray in the partition and got back change for $5. When he pounded on the plastic and protested, the amplified voice informed him that...
...school to graduate school level, groups of militant students have been effectively demonstrating their ability to disrupt and even shut down U.S. institutions of learning. On campus and off, more moderate types have been asking with increasing frequency: What about the law? Do the militants have a right to prevent other students from enjoying their rights? Last week, in a decision that firmly upheld a peaceful protest in Des Moines by five public school demonstrators, the U.S. Supreme Court also suggested that the Constitution does not protect demonstrations when they are disorderly and disruptive...
Measuring Up. Or are they? ROTC goes back to the 1862 Morrill Act, which required colleges built on federal land grants to offer military training. Far from promoting militarism, the whole idea was to prevent the development of an inbred, professional Army by infusing the military with liberally educated officers. Once compulsory at most state campuses (but entirely voluntary since 1960), ROTC supplied 100,000 Army officers in World War II and a steady flow of career men in peacetime...
...reduce profit-sapping fluctuations in the demand for individual goods and services. It is easier and quicker to diversify by buying a going concern than by starting from scratch. But Government antitrust barriers often stand in the way of combinations within a company's own field. They may prevent not only "horizontal" mergers with competitors, but, to a lesser degree, "vertical" mergers with suppliers or customers. The present law, though, generally enables companies to take over other enterprises in different fields?and it is just that loophole through which the new conglomerate organizers are moving...
...when it's short on labor. But besides being scary, there exists no attractive or formalized way to learn at the Loeb. The freshman apprentice program was not credited with great success by anybody. Donald Soule and Frank Hartenstein, the Loeb technical and assistant technical directors, are there to prevent fingers from being cut off and equipment from being destroyed; they'll answer specific questions, but they are not there to teach...