Word: rigidities
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...squabbles have never been concerned with the principle of desegration but with its pace. Two years ago, Floyd McKissick replaced Founder James Farmer because he was not moving fast enough. Last week McKissick, in turn, was supplanted by a more aggressive lieutenant. CORE's new chief, however, advocates rigid separation of the races...
Nearly 200 years after the French Revolution, the French worker remains tightly fettered near the bottom of a rigid social system, one that he has little hope of ever escaping. Adult education is virtually nonexistent in France, and though some companies offer evening courses for advancement, the training is almost always on the employee's own time. The room at the top of French life is restricted largely to those who were born there. A recent survey of 2,530 prominent French, ranging from Pop Singer Sylvie Vartan to Charles de Gaulle, showed that 68% came from families that...
...Tough Policy. In the referendum that De Gaulle hopes to submit to French voters, probably on June 16, he will in all likelihood spell out some of the reforms that he intends to accomplish. Though his ultimate goal obviously must be to loosen up France's rigid and exclusive social structure, he will probably stick to relatively concrete proposals. For the workers, he is likely to offer some form of effective participation in the management of the plant, perhaps through strengthened worker-proprietor councils. For the students, he almost certainly will offer a far greater voice in university affairs, plus...
...recently (even though it will boost some wages 46% over three years) between Rootes Motors and two unions. She also hopes to encourage companies to establish management-labor committees on productivity. Her plan has some merit: British productivity has for years been the despair of economists, who equally blame rigid labor attitudes and casual management policies for the laggard pace of modernization in industry...
...Patterning" is a rigid physical treatment for children handicapped by brain damage, mental retardation or reading disabilities. It has received widespread publicity, and is now being used to treat 10,000 children in the U.S. and abroad. Some of them appear to have responded to the treatment. But while the parents involved have become ardent disciples, medical men have seriously questioned the theory underlying the method. This month, ten major medical and health organizations* stated categorically that patterning was "without merit" and chided its inventors for claiming cures without documentation...