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East-West trade last year accounted for only 3.9% of the world's $273 billion flow of goods. Slight as it seems, the figure is extremely important politically. While the leaders of the Communist countries would certainly resist any attempt by the tender sword to slice into their control at home, they are nonetheless prepared to make diplomatic gestures in order to enhance trading opportunities with the West. The Soviet willingness to reach an accommodation regarding West Berlin (see THE WORLD) and the cordial treatment accorded France's President Georges Pompidou on his recent visit to Moscow reflected...
...mutual understanding, individual ministers and priests were warned to wait for the recommendations to be acted on by their churches and resist the temptation to take "private action." One sort of action feared was taken only a month before the announcement, in Chicago, when a Lutheran pastor and two Catholic priests celebrated a Communion service together. Ecumenical officers of both churches labeled the service irregular...
Many companies are reluctant to embrace new ideas, largely because of the inertia of management in large organizations. Foremen resist any challenge to their authority, and plant managers, who figure that they will be transferred in a couple of years, are reluctant to undertake any long-term program that will not show immediate results. But there is a powerful incentive for top management to press for new ways of doing things. One of the best-known advocates of job enrichment, Industrial Psychologist Frederick Herzberg of Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University, suggests that strikes are often welcomed by workers...
...blue collar worker compounds all the other ills of the U.S.. making it more difficult to integrate the blacks, or to bring the realities of the American system into closer conformity with the ideals of the young. The blue collar worker is exerting his new power to resist some social changes because the developments of the last decade have not been kind to him, and he has for too Jong been ignored. He is now insisting that the nation listen to him. He must accommodate himself to social change, but somehow he also must be accommodated if American society...
Foreign Devils. Bloodworth cannot resist comparing Indonesia's Sukarno to "a slightly passé Hollywood corespondent on the beach at Cap d'Antibes." Nor can he pass up the insignificant but tourist-thrilling fact. Example: anyone can buy a murder contract in the Philippines for as little as $250, $25 down. (Try a syndicate called the Beatles...