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Factory work is, indeed, so attractive in People's China that it is sad to read in the People's Daily of July 11th that many parents still think it better for their children to get secondary education than to pass directly from primary school to workbench. Castigating these outworn ideas, the official Communist newspaper warns parents that only a few children can go to secondary schools, and that the party and government will show them that juvenile labour is "equally glorious...
Most big corporations have long believed that the best way to get executives is to take the most promising men from the workbench or college, and set up a systematic program to turn the brightest of them into bosses. These men are shifted from department to department to get the broadest possible view of the entire operation and to keep from getting in the rut that is frequently the penalty of over-specialization. Periodically, the men are graded by their superiors, e.g., Esso Standard Oil has an elaborate form on which a man's superiors grade him for everything...
...apprehensive world asked these questions at bars and council tables, at workbench and at hearthside, followed them with a hundred more. The answer was buried in the mind of a grey, catlike old man behind the walls of the Kremlin. Would the cat in the Kremlin jump again? If he did, where and how would he strike? Or could he again be made to purr benignly in the role that had persuaded a lot of Americans (who would now like to bite their tongues off) to call him, fondly, Uncle...
Copley painted Paul Revere sitting in shirtsleeves at a workbench, but he would never have portrayed a common stevedore. He married into society, and the Boston Tea Party came as a shock and a bother. In 1774, Copley sailed out of trouble to England, leaving behind a harshly energetic and thoroughly credible portrait gallery of such political rebels as Samuel Adams and Thomas Mifflin...
...reading rooms are designed as study halls alone, and will house no book-shelves or reserve desks. Casting aside the classic theory that a hard workbench provokes great mental effort, the plans call for six rows of easy chairs in each of the reading areas, as well as blocks of working "stalls" where men can study and take notes in privacy...