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To the Victors Goes the Sleep

Darkness reigns in the executive suites of major Japanese corporations after 6 P.M., while subordinates' lights burn late into the night. Just the opposite is true in U.S. cor-porations, three Japanese researchers were astonished to discover. Their findings are summarized Wallace H.Oftutt, Jr., in Across the Board (April 1990).
Do Japanese CEOs work harder than Ameri- can CEOs? You might expect them to, based on the enormous success of Japanese cor-porations an...

"Prosperous Blacks in the South, 1790-1880" Loren Schweninger, in The American Historical Review (Feb. 1990), 400 A St. S.E.,Washington, D.C.20003.

Hard as it may be to believe, the South be- fore the Civil War was home to more than a few well-to-do free blacks. In fact, writes Schweninger, a historian at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, the ante- bellum South gave rise to two fairly dis- tinct black elites.
To compound the irony, the wealthiest blacks lived in the Deep S...

the time Smith's blunder was discovered, the story had al- ready gone out over the news wires.
Despite leaks like this, Washburn con-cludes, the story of the atom bomb re-mained "reasonably quiet." He believes that much of the credit belongs to Byron Price, the ex-newsman who directed the Office of Censorshin. Price resisted the army's call to impose a total news black- out on atomic (and other) news, opting in- stead for a voluntary approach. Total cen- sorship, he insisted, would have...

courtroom etiquette.
As for Mrs. Foot, as the authors are care- ful to call her, her fundamental error was in assuming that morality and etiquette are two different things. Both are part of a sin- gle, highly complex system of rules for the governance of social conduct, the authors insist. Without both of them, civilization would disappear.
"Holy Headgear" Harry Steinhauer, in The Antioch ReviewInventing (Winter 1990), P.O. Box 148, Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387.

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