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Charley is No. 5 in the hierarchy, and there is seemingly nothing to block his ascent-until he falls heel over head in love with a semigorgeous broad named Irene Walker. To the hulking bachelor hoodlum, she is "a classic, like the Truman win over Dewey." Irene is not Sicilian, but a Pole from Los Angeles who is semimarried to a Jew; she is also a freelance assassin who has shot one man for the Prizzis and, on the side, scammed them for $360 ($360? The other 000 is always omitted in family conversation, supposedly "to confuse the tourists"). Novelist...
While the Reagan Administration and congressional leaders are worrying about rapidly rising unemployment, the job picture in at least one area of the economy is bright: engineering. At commencement exercises this month and next, up to 65,000 men and women will receive bachelor's degrees in engineering from about 280 institutions. Perhaps 80% of them will go to work almost immediately at starting salaries ranging from $21,000 to $30,000 and, in a few cases, even up to $40,000. They will be able to choose among multiple job offers from U.S. corporations large and small. Says...
Never before have so many students flocked to engineering schools to endure the blistering rigors of basic classes in calculus, physics, chemistry and the advanced courses that follow. That road, which leads to such sets of postsurname initials as B.S.E.E. (bachelor of science in electrical engineering) and B.S.M.E. (bachelor of science in mechanical engineering), is academically rougher by most accounts than almost anything else offered in the U.S. educational establishment...
...Says John Swain, Phoenix manager of college recruiting for Intel, the computer-chip manufacturer: "The tendency is to hire rather than not to hire, even if you don't have an immediate need." This policy is straining engineering schools because the salaries are luring away students at the bachelor's degree level and discouraging them from going into teaching with higher-level degrees...
R.I.T. puts special emphasis on computer science. Last month it became the first school in the U.S. to offer a bachelor's degree in microelectronic engineering, which is the art of constructing complex computer circuitry on tiny silicon chips. All R.I.T. students are required to learn how to operate a computer, whether they are majoring in electrical engineering or hotel management. Says R.I.T. President M. Richard Rose: "We're moving into a different society. In the year 2000 the liberally educated person is going to have a strong technical background...