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...ROLLING STONES have been rocking for 17 years now, ever since Mick Jagger met Keith Richards on the subway and told him, "I dig to sing." It's easy to forget just how long ago and far away that is, but network news was only 15 minutes long then, people didn't know that cigarettes caused cancer, and Sonny Liston was not only alive but heavyweight champion of the world. There were no pocket calculators, and no Cuisinarts, and students had to wear ties to the dining halls at Harvard. It makes the Rolling Stones, along with Johnny Carson, Muhammad...
They no longer sing the company song before each work shift at Toyota and other Japanese auto plants, but the workers do have 5 to 10 min. of calisthenics and get a briefing on the day's work schedule before plunging spiritedly into their jobs. Japanese autoworkers are imbued with a sense of mission, a sense that doing a good job is important to them, to their union, to their families and to their nation. Worker alienation is almost unheard of, and sabotage is unknown. Coke bottles do not rattle in the doors of Toyotas as they sometimes...
...Texas, where Mexican children used to be shamed, spanked-and sometimes expelled-for speaking Spanish in school, 160,000 youngsters like Miguel are being taught in Spanish. To counteract "the Alamo mentality" and reinforce long bruised ethnic pride, the children sing Mexican songs and do Mexican dances. "Children need to know that not everyone came over on the Mayflower," says State Senator Carlos Truan. Bilingual ed students also take tests every year in English skills to see if they can be "exited" into mainstream classes. Critics point out that unlike earlier waves of U.S. immigrants from Europe, Mexican Americans...
There is nothing new about prisoners doing some honest work. As long ago as the early 19th century, industry was seen as the inmate's ticket to moral redemption, and wardens were judged by their bottom lines. By 1828 Sing Sing claimed to be economically self-sufficient by virtue of stonecutting, blacksmithing and other activities. Private companies, however, sought to limit the competition from so much cheap labor. During the Depression, Congress came to the companies' aid by severely curtailing the right to sell prison-made goods across state lines. Work programs began to shut down. Many...
...that they just don't seem to write any more. "Most of the new musicals are not melodic or inventive enough," complains Research Consultant Alfred Simon, who helps the Goodspeed pick its golden oldies. Simon, 72, who played piano for George Gershwin during rehearsals for Of Thee I Sing (1931), has seen almost every Broadway musical since the 1920s and every year prepares a list of half a dozen possible candidates. "I look for good tunes and reasonably good books," he says. "I also look for shows that haven't been brought back before. Little Johnny Jones...