Word: united
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your story on Herman Wouk and his blast against the irresponsibility of the intellectual could well be pointed up by Thomas Molnar's analysis of the rejection by the masses of the intellectual [Sept. 5]. Wouk's espousal of the family unit as a stabilizing force, and his recognition of man as primarily a creature of God, is in contrast to what Molnar calls the "rootlessness" of the intellectual. The American public may be uncultured, but they know the basic facts of life...
...years ago, Egypt, a power in the Moslem world, had come sweeping across the Sinai Peninsula to throttle the infant Israel at its U.N. birth. But decades of corruption in palace and government paid off disastrously in lack of ammunition, inferior arms and cowardly officering. Captain Nasser's unit was surrounded at Faluja, a few miles from Gaza. He saw his commanding officer wringing his hands and crying: "The soldiers are dying! The soldiers are dying...
Edgelea's new school is probably the nearest thing to a prototype of the new generation of prefab models. It is a single-story, brick-wood-steel building, low and rambling, composed of four self-contained, two-classroom units connected by an enclosed corridor of glazed glass (unnecessary in warm areas). Each 2,700-sq. ft. unit has its own twin washrooms, project area, heating plant, storage space and drinking fountains. The units can be used individually or added to as required, can be dismantled and moved to follow shifting populations. With such models, communities will be able...
...actually less a formal plan than an approach, with three constant ingredients. First, the union and management in the plant fix a productivity "norm," and the working force is promised a bonus out of the savings the workers can effect by producing at a lower cost per unit. Unlike many other incentive plans, the Scanlon Plan is noncompetitive, does not throw the plant wage structure out of balance, and unites the men on a common goal instead of pitting them against each other. The second ingredient is a system of production councils in which union and management attack production costs...
...most important changes was to take the primary responsibility for re-enlistment out of the recruiting service and to place it in the hands of the unit commanders. A telephone-book-sized fact file (The Packaged Program for Reenlistment) has been sent to all commanders ; they are expected to know it and to be able to use it to sell reenlistment. No man is permitted to pick up his discharge papers without an interview with his immediate commander, who gives him a booklet laying out the advantages of an Air Force career. Even after discharge, the Air Force keeps trying...