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...whole industry, Bill Waterton charged that British aircraft firms, "emasculated by safe government contracts," lack competitive drive. Fearful that the industry will be nationalized, they are less concerned with turning out fast airplanes than with turning a quick profit. As a result, the industry is shackled by incompetent, underpaid employees, overlapping programs and antiquated factories that look like "back-alley garages" beside U.S. aircraft plants. Said Pilot Waterton: "We have tried to muddle through by guess and by God. Britain [is] almost an also-ran in the aircraft stakes...
...underpaid and overworked Planning Board has made some progress in working out an alternative to slums. The budget is, however, so low that finding competent men is nearly impossible. Director Mark Fortune, on leave of absence at the moment, will return at least temporarily this spring...
...raise of 12% to every civil servant-an annual total of $425 million. Compared to Italy's gross national product, this generous gesture was equivalent to raising the cost of government in the U.S. by $7 billion at one stroke. Everybody agrees that 1) Italian civil servants are underpaid, 2) Italy's 1,000,000-man bureaucracy is inefficient, cumbersome. Segni, before raising the pay, had had parliamentary permission to change the system, but he let the power lapse without making any real reform...
...graders know that final exams will be returned to students, they will have to take more time with their corrections, adding longer and more careful comments to the student's work. This necessity will undoubtedly increase the burden of the already underpaid and overworked junior Faculty member. Such conscientious grading, however, does not seem an unfair demand, at a College that purportedly concentrates less on what goes into a student's academic record, than on what goes into his head...
Last week's example of devilish ingenuity was nothing new at Walla Walla, sections of which boast no plumbing, densely crowded conditions, sullen inmates, and cowed, underpaid guards who seldom stay long. Excerpts from Walla Walla's record...