Word: stress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kraft TV Theater supplied the week's dramatic surprise with a play called Patterns, by Rod Serling. A many-sided study of top-level stress in a big corporation, the play had areas of strength and persuasiveness that made Executive Suite look like Little Women. The plot dealt with the arrival at the multimillion-dollar Ramsey & Co. of Richard Kiley, a young Midwest engineer who was being groomed to replace Ed Begley, veteran vice president. The sun around which both revolved was Bossman Everett Sloane, a tough, intelligent operator who handled power as if it were his own invention...
...shakes our roots with its confusing pattern of success and failure . . . Quick decisions are needed. As a result, sport leads to the most remarkable self-discovery of our limitations as well as our abilities. It was sport that . . . made it easier for me to think about the parallel stress that faces us in real life...
...real need for some means of coordinating the study of international relations--existing departmental lines are much too rigid. History Department experts in modern diplomatic history, for example, should be available to teach courses and guide research in international relations. The Economics Department should provide courses which more clearly stress the economic aspects of politics than the international economics courses now being taught. Sociologists form Social Relations and experts from the graduate schools of Business, Law, Public Health, and of course, Public Administration, could also contribute much to an international relations program. In the Government Department, the traditional home...
...Great Wall and more than three times as long as the Burma Road. The Sikang-Tibet Highway runs 1,410 miles across 14 mountain ranges and 100 rivers, at one point traversing a staggering series of 2,600-ft. precipices. Chinese Nationalist sources acknowledged the achievement, but preferred to stress its human cost-an estimated 50,000 out of 500,000 road workers dead from injuries, exhaustion and freezing...
...Canadian war prisoner held by the Chinese Communists was free to shed gloomy light on how his fellow captives were faring in the so-called People's Republic. Squadron Leader Andrew MacKenzie, 34, who was released at the Hong Kong border Dec. 5, told Ottawa newsmen that under stress of 16 months of solitary confinement he had been forced to sign a phony confession that he had flown his U.S. Air Force F-86 over Red China. MacKenzie also brought fresh news of four other U.S. fliers still held by the Reds...