Word: reflections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unhappily, those goals conflicted. To help minority group students, C.C.N.Y. admitted and gave special tutoring to less-qualified freshmen, but the numbers remained low. In April, 200 black and Puerto Rican students locked themselves inside the gates of the college's south campus. They wanted admissions policy to reflect the racial composition of the city's high schools, which are 45% nonwhite, compared with 12% at C.C.N.Y. They demanded control of faculty hiring and firing in the tutoring program, and a separate degree-granting school of black and Puerto-Rican studies. Backed by the politically appointed board...
...been expanded considerably, most notably by the Asmat carvings collected by Nelson's son Michael before he was lost off the coast of New Guinea in 1961. This week it puts on view 700 charming Mexican folk toys and figurines, festival masks and terra-cotta ewers that reflect Rockefeller's continuing interest and many southward junkets. The exhibit's gaiety derives in part, as Rockefeller notes in the catalogue's introduction, from the fact that Mexican folk art is "an ongoing tradition, bound up with everyday life and festivals, producing a pervasive, ever-present excitement...
...charge of the C-5A contract, said that in mid-1968 it became clear that Lockheed's original cost estimate of $2.9 billion for 120 C-5As was too low. The Air Force raised the estimate to $3.1 billion, then raised it again to $3.4 billion to reflect a change in specifications. The actual cost has been nearly $1 billion more than the highest estimate. Yet Colonel Beckman said two of his civilian superiors in the Pentagon approved a juggling of the cost reports to protect the price of Lockheed's common stock. (One of the civilians resigned...
...most auspicious of Commerce's signals was flashed by the turnaround of three indicators: orders by manufacturers for durable goods, contracts and orders for plant and equipment and new building permits. Reversing sharply in March, the three portend slower growth in inflation-provoking corporate spending on expansion. They reflect boardroom decisions that will soon show up as changes in factory output and personal income, which are measured among the so-called "coincident" indicators. Reaction is already evident in retail sales, which also turned down sharply in March. Eventually, the effects will ripple through the economy as rises or declines...
This is obviously a very important problem, and one that is not yet near to being resolved. But there do seem to be some grounds for expecting that alienation is not a necessary feature of all industrial society. The various aspects of alienation all reflect the central fact that a modern industrial worker or bureaucrat performs his work for someone else's benefit. The work situation does not present him with a goal that he personally values. If a worker controlled his own equipment, if he knew that he was to receive the full value of his work...