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Most parents and specialists now realize that the typical large state-run custodial institution must be regarded as the very last resort. Even in states that have relatively progressive policies toward the treatment of retardation, such facilities are Hogarthian reflections of a Bedlam approach to the problem. They are chronically short of funds and personnel, do little to train the more seriously afflicted and can rarely maintain even minimal standards of hygiene. One example is New York's Willowbrook State School on Staten Island, where a cutback in state appropriations recently caused conditions to deteriorate to the crisis point...
...state ownership of enterprise has spread, a new kind of tycoon has risen to head Italy's major corporations -outstanding economists or financiers who have spent all or most of their careers in government employ. Under these men, the state-run firms operate with little of the bureaucratic bumbling and political waffling that afflicts nationalized industry in other countries. In Italy, state managers combine the prudence of the civil servant and the dash of the entrepreneur with chilling effectiveness. Usually indifferent to the trappings of authority and the dazzle of the spotlight, they nonetheless wield enormous power-often greater...
...near Calais, and French President Georges Pompidou warmly avowed that the vote was "proof that this time the Common Market is truly irreversible." But not many Frenchmen were that fervent. While the rest of Europe watched an hour-long special program on the Commons vote, France's state-run television disposed of the news in 30 seconds. The Belgians were probably most enthusiastic, as they had been all along. When they built the EEC headquarters in Brussels three years ago, they planted not six flagstaff's in front but seven-the extra one, as a spokesman explained...
...After all, their careers, future incomes and their very status in French society were at stake. But below the surface their mood was likely to be very different. In the past five months, tens of thousands of lycee (secondary school) students have rebelled at hundreds of the 2,258 state-run schools, occupying buildings, staging hunger strikes and fighting police...
...will continue, though possibly under a change of ownership; Britain's Jensen Motors Ltd. is likely to bid to buy the profitable car division. A U.S. Cabinet member told TIME that the nationalized Rolls-Royce would continue building engines for Lockheed. But British officials declared emphatically that a state-run Rolls would make no more jet engines under the "impossible" Lockheed contract (Lockheed so far has received only 13). These officials said that the possibility of satisfactorily renegotiating the contract was only "a long shot...