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Japanese students tend to hold themselves apart as a separate class and seem to believe that the only way to demonstrate true political concern is by vociferous denunciation of the present government, according to Reischauer. The result is a sort of utopian movement whose sole function is criticism, and which is separated from the mainstream of politics in Japan. The students are forced onto the political periphery not only by their class aloofness, but by stringent electioneering laws which prohibit them from ringing doorbells and participating in other such campaign activities, considered "dirty" in Japan...
...farmers, said Nikita, protect their fertilizer in plastic bags, but in Russia the piles of mineral fertilizer shipped out from factories are allowed to lie around in heaps, exposed to the weather. In winter, snorted Nikita, kids slide down the piles on their sleds. Making another of his Utopian promises to catch up with U.S. production, Khrushchev also said that by 1965 Russia hoped to turn out 35 million tons of fertilizer. Though this would equal U.S. output last year, U.S. fertilizer is far richer in essential plant nutrients...
Efficiency with Service. The whole idea sounded Utopian, and in another time would not even have been discussed. But the rapid growth of world business and the increasing sensitivity of businessmen to their place in society have created strong new currents. The remarkable consensus of last week's congress was that the old attitude of "business is business" has withered. With social awareness growing, today's businessmen must cope with new moral and human dimensions. "Why can't you think less about profit and more about people?" challenged Sverre Walter Rostoft, president of the Federation of Norwegian...
Japanese students hold themselves apart as a separate class, according to Reischauer. To be anti-government is to be "political." The result is a sort of utopian movement whose sole function is criticism, and which is separated from the mainstream of politics in Japan...
...General and complete disarmament. Still a Utopian vision, but there may now be a better chance for some degree of disarmament than at any time since World...