Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FORTUNE AND MEN'S EYES, by Canadian Playwright John Herbert, was, when originally presented in 1967, a scorching indictment of the prison system, with its brutal guards and tyrannizing homosexual inmates. As restaged by Sal Mineo, complete with the added attractions of blood, gore, a nude rape scene and an almost totally inept cast, it turns out to be nothng more than a carefully placed kick in the groin...
...popular in Japan. Accustomed to reliance on the U.S. for protection, Japan now spends less than 1% of its gross national product on defense. Japanese are understandably reluctant to increase their country's military budget or to assume a larger and more expensive role in an Asian defense system. The country's industrialists naturally are not eager to cut back on their highly profitable textile exports...
...months ago, the board's majority recommended a return to parliamentary democracy and a "four-legged" economic system that would include a private sector, cooperatives and joint private-public ventures, as well as state-run enterprises. It also recommended more autonomy for Burma's hill tribes and other minorities, which constitute 25% of the population...
...weeks ago, Ne Win finally handed down his decision about the advisory board's advice. "I am not interested in any economic system, with four legs or otherwise, which does not put the people's interests first," he said. "We must go the way of true socialism...
...their atomic power industries, France under Charles de Gaulle proudly clung to its own nuclear technology. The country's four atomic power plants use natural uranium, the only nuclear fuel available to France in large amounts. The least fissionable of atomic fuels, natural uranium requires costly installations. The system has been a technical success but an economic failure. Says Marcel Boiteux, general manager of Electricité de France, the state-controlled power network: "The cost of electricity is 50% higher than that produced by more traditional systems...