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...crucial question is whether the lag in productivity is only temporary. There are several indications that the change may endure. The main thrust of the U.S. economy has shifted from producing goods to providing services. Last year work in Government and services together consumed 50% more man-hours of labor than the production of goods. Thanks to improving technology, productivity is still gaining in manufacturing; it has climbed at a 3½% annual rate so far in 1969. Outside of manufacturing, where the best way to raise efficiency is to induce people to perform better, productivity has fallen...
...relations between the university and the government which obtain at a variety of levels.) It is a one-sided conception of polities indeed that allows as political. say, only opponents of the Vietnam war, and reduces the silent and acquiescent to the status of a-political onlookers. One is thrust into a political role in taking part in the world: this has been repeated from Aristotle through twentieth-century existentialists. The question is thus not "am I or should I be political?" but " realizing that I am political by virtue of my very existence, what sort of politics must...
Roberts called the convocation idea "an elaborate charade," which would have the same "substantive political impact" as a regular vote. He added that the avoidance of a regular Faculty vote would, at the same time, "blunt the motion's moral thrust" and act as "a slap at student protest...
...THING, early in 1967 SDS discovered Marxism. Actually it was thrust in front of its face by the decision of the Progressive Labor Party to disband the May 2nd Movement (a small but militant anti-war group) and send members into SDS. PL was formed in 1964 by a group of dissident ex-Communists who were fed up with the increasingly moderate stance and peaceful co-existence line of the Party. They brought to the rather undisciplined and unideological New Left a coherent, straightforward revolutionary strategy and the discipline of a centralist organization. The children of Hiroshima and Coca-Cola...
...hours at a time. They had only one goal: to do all they could." Vast armies of blue-tunicked men and women toiled over irrigation projects, dams and thousands of backyard steel furnaces. In less than two years, it was clear that the Great Leap had thrust China backward...