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...areas to see what sort of industry they can use. When Cambridge, Md., proved to have nearly everything needed to make chop suey, Fantus found it a new resident in Chun King Corp. The Fantus report on Evansville, Ind., so strongly criticized the town's attitude ("Evansville people resent anyone in power . . . politics is a dirty word") that it inspired civic reform and later enabled the city to attract new plants...
Knocked Heads. In his efforts to reshape Tunisia as a modern nation, Bourguiba has had to knock heads together. Inevitably, some army officers resent the backseat role he gives the military. And Moslem religious leaders are angered by his attempt to abolish the day-long fasts of the month of Ramadan, and by his emancipation of women...
...Worth Rebuffing. What helped make young Americans apolitical in the first place, says Keniston. was the absence of a feudal aristocracy to resent and smash. During the rapid industrialization after the Civil War, for instance, the young could easily see themselves rising from rags to riches in a world that rewarded hard work, not rebellion. Now the "image of youth as an apprenticeship for upward mobility is waning," to be replaced by a self-centered style of behavior that Keniston calls "youth culture." It has many forms-the beatnik, the delinquent, the suburban adolescent-but all have in common...
Dormitory officers, who are required to enforce college rules, have had a particularly burdensome job, especially in those dormitories with large numbers of freshmen. "We greatly resent having to act as policemen this year," said one President, and Dean Elliott agreed that House committee members "have more responsibility than they can bear." She added that "there was a greater feeling of responsibility among students when they had double reporting...
...especially resent the attempt to link me with the old, corrupt ways," McCann said. "I'm hardly old enough to be involved with those days...