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While more than half the women felt that the executive wife could well undergo some company appraisal, most drew the line at anything so crass as an interview, favored more informal methods, e.g., dropping in at home. The dissent (45%) to even this moderate approach was surprisingly vehement. Said Mrs. Elizabeth Harvey, wife of the director of industrial relations for General Electric's Automotive Division: "This recent development is abhorrent to any sensible woman who desires to be a homemaker as opposed to a business appendage...
...howls against Discounter Gattegno's "American plague" were just as vehement as those hurled at his American counterparts. Sternly calling on manufacturers to boycott his booming business, French retail-trade papers scornfully labeled him "Monsieur 20%." Virtually the entire Paris press, fearful of losing regular accounts, refused his advertising. Thomson-Houston, the big French equivalent of General Electric, refused to sell him its appliances...
...times, University policy has leant credence to these ill-defined feelings. One incident about which virtually all students are misinformed and about which they are all very vehement is the now notorious couch ban. On the surface it appeared like nothing more than a senseless and arbitrary use of power by the administration. Suddenly from the office of the manager of student residences came a pronouncement forbidding the use of couches in the rooms. After widespread protest, this was changed to "required registration" of couches. It is understood by some that the whole incident was merely a testing of strength...
...editorial entitled "Father Halton's Legitimate Complaint," the Princetonian, in less vehement terms, agreed with Halton that "the religion department is, in fact, made up of men committed to a definitely non-Catholic position, men, who, because of their very strong commitments of faith, would be bound to be lax in presenting a fair view of the Roman Catholic standpoint...
...unruffled under public criticism as he is in the quiet of his own home. He can hardly make a move without provoking tantrums in some political sector, where worry springs eternal that something he does will cost votes. Nevertheless, he has earned a reputation for disarming his most vehement critics with quiet logic, unfailing good humor. His formula: "When I get involved in a controversy, I don't care whether the people on the other side are s.o.b.s. What mat ters is what they stand...