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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., April 7--Walter P. Reuther today accused the leadership of the free world with failure to understand the dimensions of war and peace and described the labor movement as the vanguard in the struggle against "Communist tyranny...
...conditioning, doctors' and nurses' noses and throats, or from a floor recently swabbed with a filthy mop ("The mop gets in the wound more than the hemostat"). Other Walter points: ¶Hospitals pay their workers so little that they get only the poorly educated, who cannot understand the difference between "clean" and truly germfree. Further, the help get little on-the-job training. ¶ Doctors rely too much on antibiotics, ignoring the fact that bacteria which defy the antibiotics stay around hospitals...
...Change? Most engineers wanted to change jobs simply to make more money. Though the young engineer just out of college starts at a good salary (currently from $432 to $500 a month), raises are sometimes slow in coming. "Your own company can never understand why you're worth much more two years after being hired," said a 34-year-old electronics engineer on the lookout for a new job, "whereas another company figures that they're getting real experience." Said a Curtiss-Wright engineer: "The general opinion is that if you want more money-change jobs...
Damon-Fisher strongly objects to Christian prejudice against the Jews as well as Christian renunciation of life. He cannot understand the death-wish and the related prohibition of sexual expression of many believers. Fisher is very much concerned with the sexual aspects of Christianity and the relationship of religious symbols to sexual ones. He utilizes many of the observations of modern psychology but adds a worthwhile number of his own. Damon finds nothing original in the rituals and beliefs of Christianity and regards it as just another mystery cult, the only difference being that of greater compassion and tenderness...
...outsiders have made the effort to try to understand this paradoxical sect of highly organized, missionary-minded mystics, strongest remnant of the great age of Hasidism, that inspired Eastern European Jewry during the 18th and 19th centuries. In the March and April issues of Commentary, Reform Rabbi Herbert Weiner of Temple Israel in South Orange, N.J. presents the results of a year-long study of the Brooklyn Lubavitchers...