Word: rigidities
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...pines," but his success owes more to pluck than luck. While he was still a child, his parents and five of his seven brothers and sisters died in rapid succession, leaving him, a frail orphan, to scratch for a living. With no family to discipline him in the rigid Japanese rules of life, which dictated that a boy must stick with his first employer for life. Matsushita at 1 6 deserted his job as apprentice bicycle repairman to join the Osaka Electric Light Co. because he saw more future in the infant electric industry. In eight years he had married...
Matsushita nonetheless adheres to a rigid schedule that brings him home only on weekends to his wife Mumeno. But in their 45 years of marriage, she has played a vital part in his business life, accompanying him on factory visits and often doing the final tests on home appliances that Matsushita is about to market. Currently, they live in a company-owned, 27-room Japanese-style home on a country estate between Osaka and Kobe, but will soon move to a six-room house on the same grounds, which is being westernized for comfort...
...freshman and the sophomore from Antioch College who share a room in a huge federal building in Bethesda, Md., are free men, but their routine last week was as rigid as a prisoner's. Almost as confining as leg irons were the polyethylene tubes and electric cord that hooked each of them up to a trolley loaded with complicated apparatus. Peter Schmidt, 18, and Lawrence Baldwin, 20, got out of their room only once a day, to walk a few steps down the hall and be weighed on a scale that is accurate to a fraction of an ounce...
...Barbaud himself began speculating on the musical potential of computers after reading that Haydn leaned heavily on the laws of probability and sometimes rolled dice to make a choice among possible chord and key combinations. Every type of music, Barbaud decided, must have its own laws, all equally rigid and equally mechanical. If a machine could be made to follow the rules, he reasoned, it could write music. Given proper orders, Barbaud concluded, a machine might even put together a Beethoven Tenth Symphony...
...delicate task of talking a little firmness into the "soft six" to Argentine Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Cárcano. The Argentine at one point got President Arturo Frondizi to telephone Brazilian President João ("Jango") Goulart from Buenos Aires to plead for modification of Brazil's rigid hands-off-Cuba position. The U.S. had high hopes that Chile would come around; instead, it turned down every plea. Nothing worked, and at the end, although sympathetic with the majority cause himself, Cárcano was forbidden to cast Argentina's "big" vote with...