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...gerontocrats have blocked. Beyond that, the top priority is to get the country moving, after the sharp economic slowdown that has set in during the past three years. In the next generation's struggle for power, "the domestic economy has to be the major issue," says the Rand Corporation's Thane Gustafson. Careers will be made or broken and alliances concluded or undone over new proposals to revitalize the economy. But change will not come easily. Brezhnev's most unwelcome legacy has been the debacle down on the farm. Says a Soviet journalist: "The new man in the Kremlin will...
...design consultant for IBM products and buildings since 1946, his chance. "Olivetti suddenly became a first-rate example to point to," Noyes said, "a company in which a consistent design program was obviously an integral part of its management policies." With Watson's full support, Noyes and Paul Rand developed the IBM style. (Noyes and Rand also created the distinctive Westinghouse logo...
...approaches of these designers vary as much as the ambitions and the nature of the companies they serve. Some designers go in for elaborate market studies and psychological testing. Says Walter Margulies: "Research is mandatory." On the other hand Rand says, "Surveys and research are a waste of time. When I designed the IBM logo, I just...
...Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha's National Party. Instead, Flip van der Walt, 63, barely won, carrying the district by a mere 308 of the 9,111 ballots cast. The vote reflects deep, corrosive divisions among South African whites over the country's future direction. The Rand Daily Mail judged the outcome the nation's "biggest electoral shock since 1948," when the National Party swept to power under the banner of white supremacy...
...government commission recommended last September that job reservation, especially the issuing of blasting certificates only to whites, be abolished. Despite a shortage of miners with such certificates, which qualify workers for the best jobs, the government has made no move to enforce the recommendation. Commented the Rand Daily Mail: "Only the mining industry remains [such] a bastion of white privilege...