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...that output per unit of labor in British steel in "probably only 50% of the U.S. level." In the port of London, there are 444 different employers of dockworkers--each one is too small to use large scale machinery, each one refuses to merge with the others. The British refer to their salesmen as "spivs," "bagmen", or "touts" and their salesmanship often reflects this disdain. Auto companies tell of suppliers who refuse business because added orders might "upset stability" of production. And the Economist describes a visit to a British plant in which "you will be taken aside...
...much practice as he does. "Open-heart surgery," say Dr. Eiseman and Dr. Spencer, "unfortunately has a totally undeserved role as a professional status symbol." It is no field, they add, "for those who follow the fads." In recognition of the problem, cardiologists in smaller cities are beginning to refer more of their patients to the busy surgeons in the big centers...
Authors of the petition claim that B.U. President Case, who met with News editors last Monday, was only stalling for time when he promised not to use his prerogative to edit the paper and agreed to refer the question of student control to the Trustees, who will meet March 19. By circulating the petition now, Harris feels, the students may be able to force Case's hand before the March 19 Trustees' meeting, by which time student opinion may have subsided...
...statement that "Art is a game by which man distracts himself." And Kitaj provides enough puns and anagrams for a month of Sundays. His paintings are a kind of litterbug's playground, scattered with the paperwork of mass communications. There are doodles drawn from Erasmus' notebooks, titles that refer to obscure Marxist-Leninist deviationists. In one corner of his An Early Europe is pasted the source photograph of neoclassical nudes that inspired the painting's composition. He will borrow an economist's catch phrase, The Production of Waste, to title a 1963 oil showing a trio of allegorical figures chopped...
...handy weapon but has a grasp of its intricacies that is roughly equal to Giscard's knowledge of military strategy. De Gaulle has come increasingly under the influence of Jacques Rueff, a gold standard devotee and a close economic adviser. This fact has prompted some Paris economists to refer sarcastically to the present as the Golden Age of French diplomacy...