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...Whyte sees the Organization Man, in the office he is engulfed by the team spirit, and in his suburb he is "imprisoned in brotherhood." The indictment, now seven years old, still has much validity, although Whyte admits that a tighter, more competitive economy has made for many sharper, less brotherly elbows. Besides, as automation displaces many straight clerical jobs, there is growing demand for skilled, creative people?and a growing willingness to take them as they are. There is a thriving washroom and cocktail-party folklore about corporate togetherness (the oil company chemist who is instructed to buy only company...
While a Senate subcommittee last week looked for signs of favoritism in the award of a TFX all-purpose-fighter contract to General Dynamics, many companies in the defense industry were worried about just the reverse: the Pentagon's increasingly sharper bargaining on defense contracts. The defense industry admits that Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara's band of tough-minded procurement officers is doing the best job of military buying in history. "The longer the Government is in business, the smarter it gets," says Lawrence A. Harvey, president of Harvey Aluminum. "The smarter it gets, the closer...
...other chief of state south of the border has been under sharper attack from the extremes of left and right or fought them all off more courageously. From the moment Betancourt was elected to office in 1958 after the overthrow of Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez, the Communists and a gaggle of the discontented have done their best to topple his government. In the economic fallout that came after the corrupt dictatorship's fall, there were many grievances to exploit; Communist-fired mobs roamed the capital; Communist gunmen murdered policemen, started backland guerrilla uprisings, even infiltrated...
Stanford still has plenty of problems. The 5,580 undergraduates are a delight to such faculty newcomers as Historian Gordon Craig, who calls them "a lot fresher than Princeton students." But the brains behind the tanned, healthy faces are getting sharper than the curriculum, which needs revision to fit them. The untaxing overseas courses, for example, are often labeled "inane." Humanities need to be put on a par with science. Stanford's new boys and girls also chafe at Stanford's quaint old ways. Liquor is banned and so is "partisan politics," which means that Nixon and Brown...
...slow down" among the Six. The free world lag, says top Japanese Economist Ryokichi Minobe, "is not so much a slowdown of a recession nature, but a forced adjustment back to more normal, healthy rates." All over the world this forced adjustment shows itself in softer demand and sharper competition, in that old profit-price squeeze and nervous stock markets...