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...bitter. Strikers waved their signs only when news photographers whooped them on, spent most of their tours on the picket line playing ball, shooting craps, or gazing at television sets plugged into management's power outlets. In Gary, Ind., pickets used an air-conditioned, seven-seat mobile toilet lent them by U.S. Steel. An Inland Steel official called the situation "a comic opera." Said a U.S. Steel executive: "It's just as if they'd all been let out of school...
...costs only 40?-but in 1955 the average Russian male got exactly five razor blades. A Russian family eats meat no more than once a week. A worker can buy a refrigerator for $165, but his annual income is about $600. Six families sometimes share a kitchen and a toilet...
...sentence 'Shall we wear evening dress?' would not be possible, the appropriate expression being 'Are we going to change?' "To answer the salutation "How d'you do?" with "Quite well, thank you" is as non-U as saying ill, mirror, notepaper, radio, serviette, toilet-paper, wealthy and lounges for the U words sick, lookingglass, writing paper, wireless, table-napkin, lavatory-paper, rich and halls. The U reply...
...Guillant and assistants dutifully took note of all this, as well as of the complaint that operators must ask permission of their supervisors to go to the toilet, with the "round trip" restricted to five minutes. They found essentially the same symptoms in all telephonistes, regardless of their living conditions or other background factors. Concluded the doctors: "It's their work which seems to be essentially responsible...
...toilet training to "play with peers," are solidly rooted in Freud's concepts. In nursery schools, self-expression owes almost all to Freud. Picking a vocation or choosing a college course, countless U.S. youths, submit themselves to aptitude tests and other psychological gimmicks based on Freudian interpretation of personality structure; e.g., the Rorschach inkblot tests may reveal hidden hostilities which would make a career as a sales man unprofitable, or dependency yearnings which would bar promotion as a foreman or executive. A.firm of consultants is doing big business providing psychologists to industry. Its biggest client: Chicago's case...