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...operations are hampered by ill-trained and featherbedding workers. Last year Petrobras held up construction on an ammonia plant in Bahia, yet kept on most of the 400 workers hired for the plant, transferring them to other jobs. Companies doing business with Petrobras also complain that its personnel solicit bribes and kickbacks. On several deals, according to insiders, Petrobras has imported crude oil at prices well above the market and exported refined products at a loss. Moreover, Communist-leaning agitators dominate Petrobras' powerful refining and pro duction unions-which, in turn, suggest their candidates for two of Petrobras...
Goodman's willingness to embrace "the risk of opposing an intolerable society" does not entitle him to solicit youthful allies. Goodman, of all people, is aware of the patterns of transference which involve students with their teachers. A student's love is not directed simply at him, but also at his position. The teacher is responsible most for what it is in himself that a student responds to. That responsibility dictates that he must wait until the student has matured and both may see clearly what form their relationship will take. To rush immediately towards consummation is irresponsible...
Last Thursday the Faculty Committee on Student Activities postponed action on University recognition for the group. However, the has been allowed to use University rooms and was given the right to solicit members on registration lines this Fall...
Nevertheless, Life has energy and it has Harris, an Irish actor who at 29 is being touted as Britain's Brando. He does solicit the comparison, but happily he also displays two striking qualities of his own: a crude but considerable sense of gesture and violent vitality. He also has the careless Irish charm. At a rich man's party, the big slummox grabs a bottle of beer and then, grand as a lord, leans over and uses the nearest Bentley for a bottle opener...