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Glimp said that he also has spoken with Montgomery and Howard as early as last spring. "The case Afro makes for having a Negro psychiatrist is a good one," Glimp said, "but it has to be handled in a ticklish way. Some Negroes may react negatively to the idea of having someone just for them...
Sticky Issues. What seems like airy nonchalance on the part of the Big Three may actually reflect their satisfaction over Reuther's ticklish position. Nonetheless, an end to the industry's labor strife seems uncomfortably far off, one reason being that the union, as G.M.'s Seaton complains, has yet "to put priorities on its mountain of demands." Besides his wage demands, Reuther has raised such sticky issues as a "guaranteed annual income." And even when a settlement with Ford is finally achieved, the U.A.W. will have to deal with Chrysler and G.M.-where strikes could also...
...endless resources for insult. Ezra Pound, after a first impression, was "a cowboy songster"; T. S. Eliot was "a Prufrock who would 'dare' all right 'to eat a peach'-provided he was quite sure that he possessed the correct European table-technique for that ticklish operation...
...task in academe is quite so tough or ticklish as picking a college president; never before in U.S. history have so many schools been engaged in the struggle to find one. According to a survey by the American Council on Education issued last week, at least 300 U.S. institutions-ranging from giant state universities to dozens of tiny junior colleges-are in the market for a new top man. Most of them are ruefully discovering that U.C.L.A. Chancellor Franklin Murphy is right when he claims that "attracting high-quality academic administrators is the biggest problem in American universities today...
Reyre commands his remarkable complex by speed, secrecy and a computerlike memory for figures. Helping to guide the destiny of more than 100 companies, he surrounds himself with young engineers, not bankers. "You can't invest in modern industry without understanding the ticklish technical questions," he says, "and it's a lot easier to teach an engineer finance than to teach a financier engineering." So well does that formula work that Paribas profits ($5,000,000 last fiscal year) topped those of all other French banks, including the larger nationalized institutions...