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...Istanbul eruption was only one symptom of a creeping malaise that is infecting Turkey. Inflation plagues the economy. Turkey's balance of payments is $300 million in the red. U.S. economic aid dropped from $237 million in 1963 to $40 million last year, and promises to go even lower unless Turkey shows greater willingness to force its farmers out of the profitable business of growing poppies for opium and heroin. Natural disasters have worsened the turmoil. An earthquake this year killed 1,087 people and caused more than $100 million damage. Turkey's wheat harvest is a disaster...
...construction workers, who have become the most aggressive defenders of the flag's virtues, often reflect their ethnic and social distance from the dissenting young whom they so fiercely resent. The rush to the flag, Harvard Professor of Sociology Martin Lipset suggests, is a symptom of tribalism. Thus in a matter of months the hardhats have constituted themselves as a new militant fraternity in American life. "That's my flag they're burning," a carpenter named Clem Perke said in defense of a parade of 15,000 hardhats two weeks ago in Baltimore. "Look back at the Depression. I came...
Failure rates varied widely. For primary impotence, a symptom treated in 32 males, it was 40%?in the authors' judgment, a clinical "disaster." On the other hand, vaginismus?a form of muscular spasm making intercourse difficult or impossible?proved totally amenable to treatment. All 29 of the patients with this complaint were cured within two weeks...
...street corner press as a legitimate, though rash, expression of deeply felt emotion-"reactions to an America that many of the nation's young feel has not lived up to the promises of their Sunday school sermons or their civies class lessons." To her the underground press is a symptom of a sick society a cancer-like attack on the American body politic. In other words, the underground press- "salacious, hilarious, outrageous, desperate, philosophical, didactic"- is a reactive phenomenon that reflects an ailing culture...
...Empty-Box Ploy. Whatever the cause, the executive who is slipping often betrays himself by telltale signs. He will work long hours, nag his staff about petty details, or replace competent subordinates with yes men. Refusal to take a vacation is an almost certain symptom. Failures are terrified that their shortcomings will be discovered in their absence. Sometimes the failures resort to elaborate -and costly-ruses to cover their traces. In one TV-set manufacturing company, for example, a vice president could not meet his production goals and shipped empty boxes to distributors. When they complained, he insisted...