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...statement of the Trustees shows us that this Ad Hoc Committee is talking in a vacuum. The Trustees called for a temporary halt in gym construction as a favor to the mayor, not in response to the needs of the community. I.D.A. is not mentioned at all. The faculty has made no attempt to demand the power to negotiate, or the power to control the police. This indicates that they fail to recognize what is clear to everyone else: the Administration has been thoroughly discredited. At the same time that the Faculty has been claiming they were "mediating" in good...
Under what he called pressure-vacuum production, Nordhoff kept materials flowing heavily into his plant and insisted on immediate delivery of cars to customers. The combination, he believed, exerted psychological pressure on workers to produce faster. In six months, production almost trebled to 1,800 cars a month...
...meat-packing industry for decades. In 1929 it was first to break the traditional anonymity of most producers by banding its wieners like cigars with a yellow paper ring. Then it developed an automatic banding machine, automatic linkers and strippers, and in 1950 hit on the idea for vacuum packaging in plastic, which quadrupled the shell life of what were once highly perishable products...
Warner was the last of the old-style movie moguls - the wily pioneers like Goldwyn, Mayer and Cohn - who ruled their lots like caliphs, buying stars like steers, firing directors as easily as office boys, and selecting scripts by gut instinct. And the power vacuum they left behind is being filled by men with polished fingernails and vocabularies to match. The arrival of the newcomers may not guarantee a Celluloid City renaissance. But it has already generated a measurable optimism...
...Unlike nature, the American public adores a vacuum," says a character in Weekend. The thesis will certainly be tested by the fate of Gore Vidal's new Broadway comedy about a presidential hopeful. Vidal is capable of springy, sophisticated political humor, as he demonstrated in The Best Man (1960); but this time the jokes are either juvenile or senile. Most of the characters are as appealing as wads of wet Kleenex, and the story line is about as amusing as the Congressional Record...