Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shotgun Barrage. Sullivan, 51, seems to relish tough jobs. Born in Manchester, N.H., he holds advanced degrees from Columbia and Harvard (Ed.D., 1956), served as a school superintendent in Maine and on Long Island before setting up a private school system for Negroes in Prince Edward County, Va., in 1963. There the public schools had closed rather than integrate, and Negro children had gone untaught for four years. Sullivan persisted in launching the new schools despite continual threats and a shotgun barrage on his house...
...weighs only 1,450 Ibs.-less than a Volkswagen. The weight-saving was mainly accomplished by completely eliminating the chassis behind the driver's seat; the car's Chevrolet engine (souped up to 650 h.p.) and gearbox carry the rear suspension system and are covered by a simple metal sheath...
...subsidiaries, the holding companies are at least theoretically free to spread far afield - into retailing, manufacturing, transportation or whatever else looks profitable. That possibility plainly wor ries the Federal Reserve Board. Says Chairman William McChesney Martin: "This is a real can of worms. It can affect the whole capitalistic system in the U.S. The line between banking and commerce should not be erased...
...industry, found demand outpacing supply. Then came a fillip from the Federal Power Commission in Washington. Ruling that the gas companies should bring the Louisiana deposits ashore individually, the FPC scotched the plans of a large group of 30 oil companies headed by Shell to build a single, cooperative system...
Crude Circus. With the exception of Leaving the Yellow House, published in Esquire in 1957, the early stories are staged with willing if befuddled ac- tors who are too deeply involved with workaday concerns to do much lofty abstracting. In The Old System (1967) and Mosby's Memoirs (1968), the protagonists are aging rationalists of considerable accomplishment. Both are shown trying to define the meaning of their own lives by musing about the weaknesses of people they have known...