Word: problem
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Julian ("Cannonball") Adderley is a jazzman with a nagging, but not unique, problem: the more successful he becomes, the less his original, far-out fans like him. One of his recent albums, The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco (Riverside), sold 50,000 copies-phenomenal for a jazz record-and climbed to the bestseller charts along with such towering competitors as Fireside Sing Along with Mitch. Last week Cannonball and his men were shouting it up at San Francisco's Jazz Workshop. "The rhythm," complained a beard to a ponytail, "doesn't hang together...
...supply problem involved has long staggered another Jew with some experience in leading his people: Israel's Premier and first Defense Minister, David Ben-Gurion. Last week, while the rest of the world was racked by the summit crisis, Prime Minister Ben-Gurion's views on Exodus 12:37 threw the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) into an uproar, a motion of no confidence, and a hassle that continues in the press...
...organized a Bible study circle, which included several eminent scholars who met at his house in Jerusalem every other Saturday. Scheduled to speak before the Tel Aviv Journalists' Association on a nonpolitical topic last fortnight, Ben-Gurion happily turned to his longstanding concern about Moses' problem in logistics...
...hoped seven school systems would join. By last week he had signed up 21 (including private and parochial schools), who pay $6,000 apiece for expert help. The council plans to get to work soon on science and English curriculums. The 23-man staff will also tackle any other problem that concerns the schools. The experts analyze bond issues and tax rates, even plan new schools. Suburban Berea originally planned to build a new high school in 1965, but the council's researchers proved that Berea, with its growing population, would need the school two years ahead of schedule...
Some psychiatrists nonetheless believe that the impersonality of modern mass production at least contributes to the problem of mental health. Others, like Du Font's psychiatric chief, Dr. Gerald Gordon, feel that the job actually provides a needed center of reality. Says Dr. Gordon: "Industry is one of the few realistic situations in our present culture, because its success depends on the hard, cold profit-loss statistics. What is really good, sound business is also good mental health...