Word: mcdonaldization
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...succeed Anderson, President Kennedy named Admiral David Lamar McDonald, 56, commander of U.S. Naval Forces in Europe. A member of the Annapolis class of '28, McDonald has served as an aircraft-carrier commander (Mindoro and Coral Sea), as director of air warfare in the office of the Chief of Naval Operations and as deputy assistant chief of staff at SHAPE headquarters in Europe. In July 1961, he took over from Admiral Anderson as commander of the Mediterranean Sixth Fleet, a job that McDonald saw as that of "a kind of roving ambassador of good will." Last month...
...steel raises its prices, the big question is how much of the rise will be absorbed by higher labor costs. David McDonald's Steelworkers can reopen their labor contract on May 1 or later, and are almost sure to ask for a sweeter contract in the face of any price rise-seeking either higher wages or three-month paid leaves for veteran workers every five years in order to create more jobs...
...last week, six major faculty groups had backed resolutions calling on the C.U. administration to rethink its notions of academic freedom. "Now all this is out in the open." says one faculty man. "The trustees cannot bypass the situation as it exists." Rector McDonald himself i gave a sign that all the protest was having j a telling effect. He announced the appearance at Catholic University next month of a timely guest speaker: Augustin Cardinal Bea, a towering liberal at the Vatican Council. Bea's topic: ''Academic Research and Ecumenicism...
...Rector McDonald vetoed as "imprudent" a proposed C.U. symposium on evolution and Christian theology during the Darwin centennial in 1959-while similar symposiums were held at three other Catholic universities (Fordham, Duquesne, and Chicago's Loyola). ¶ Sociologist Father Raymond Plotvin was forced to withdraw from a major study of family planning in cooperation with Jesuit Georgetown University. Reason: McDonald refused to approve Plotvin's request for a Ford Foundation grant to study "family size preference of American Catholic college girls" because the subject was "too controversial...
...Vatican request, C.U.'s canon law faculty prepared for the council a list of proposed reforms of obsolete church laws. In Rome, U.S. bishops waited expectantly but in vain to hear the C.U. ideas. Reason: Rector McDonald never sent them. His critics call-this "even more serious than the speaker...