Word: procession
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Hint of a Swap. What were the Soviets up to? For one thing, they may have been trying to pressure Turkey into returning the father-and-son pair who carried off the first successful hijacking of a Soviet aircraft last month, killing an 18-year-old stewardess in the process. Turkish President Cevdet Sunay, however, declared that the matter would be handled not as a political decision, but by Turkish courts, where it is still pending...
...didn't care." The statement is characteristic of the part of the human potentials movement that Esalen represents. It and its many imitators are analogous to the so-called "free university," which eliminates the traditional boundaries between students and faculty, one academic discipline and another, the cognitive (knowing) process and the affective (feeling) process...
...Maine retreat, opened in 1947, the N.T.L. began applying the feedback process to what has become an entirely new educational approach: the T group. Uninstructed and agendaless, the group begins to coalesce in a highly charged emotional atmosphere. At first, group members are reserved, but eventually they remove their social masks. Says Bradford: "People come as lonely people -we're all lonely people-and find they can finally share with somebody. One statement I've heard 300 or 400 times from T-group members is, 'You know, I know you people better than people...
...hour days; they report that productivity is up and absenteeism and turnover are down. In Germany, Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm has achieved much the same results by allowing its workers to choose, within limits, their own hours of work. The men themselves arrange their schedules without disrupting the production process. The practice is so successful that 50 other German companies have copied it, and unions are asking for a raise because of increased output...
...representatives of 20 of the richest investment houses were summoned, on an hour's notice, to an emergency meeting in the exchange's dark-paneled board room. President Robert Haack told them they had to come up with some salvage plan or face a major crisis. By process of elimination, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, by far the biggest U.S. brokerage, was selected as savior. Clifford Michel, managing partner of Loeb, Rhoades, explains: "One strong, viable firm had to take over, and Merrill Lynch was the only one that had the capital, the muscle and the talent...