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...Adrian Du Plessis does not look much like a revolutionary. He has black-rimmed glasses, short, sandy-colored hair, a soft voice and prominent dimples when he smiles. Last week he was talking about the possibilities for social and political change in his native South Africa. He said he thought any change would necessarily mean "a major redistribution of wealth" from the ruling white elite to the African masses...
Though management argues that labor alone has done little to enhance productivity, labor has contributed by becoming better skilled and schooled-with the help of management. Du Pont uses the new "teaching machines" to upgrade its blue collars so that when their jobs are made obsolete, they can shift over immediately to new ones. Kaiser Steel recently started to pay monthly bonuses for increases in productivity and reductions in production costs, has paid an average $524 per man so far this year, finds that workers now take noticeably greater pains to prevent costly mechanical breakdowns...
Nonsense! "It is nonsense to say Hachette has prevented anyone from creating a newspaper," says Robert Meunier du Houssoy, 75, president of the company and great-grandson of Founder Hachette. "Why don't other people just go ahead and found...
...overhauled, Paris detectives were called in for advice. When Quebec drew up its six-year development plan, it was only natural to turn for inspiration to France's successful planification économique. And when Quebec Premier Jean Lesage journeyed to Paris to open a $340,000 Maison du Quebec two years ago, Charles de Gaulle welcomed him with all the pomp usually accorded a head of state...
Smyth moved to Delaware, bought up Dover's weekly newspaper and converted it to a daily. He watched sorrowfully as circulation fell overnight from 4,200 to 2,000; Doverites seemed quite content with the two Du Pont-owned papers published in nearby Wilmington, the Journal and the News. There were also other growing pains. The International Typographical Union tried to organize Smyth's pitifully small stable of printers. But Smyth put his back up, imported substitutes from as far off as Texas, and after two years the I.T.U. furled its last picket sign and slunk away...