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Today, as the Placement Bureau at Yale noted last week, "employers are becoming extremely selective." In the face of this fact, which is directly related to the increased competition inevitable in a time when more college graduates are being turned loose on American employers than ever before, the Office of Student Placement has declared that "there is no employment office as such at Harvard. Here is the core of the problem: the emphasis is placed not on helping to find specific jobs for students, not on making actual contacts between students and possible employers, but on the general principle...
From his description, journalists the world over would instantly recognize Rafael Delgado Lozano, man-of-all-work in TIME'S Mexico City bureau. Almost without exception, his kind is present wherever there is a newspaper city room, or an editorial office, or a foreign bureau worthy of the name. He is-in many ways-journalism's indispensable...
...especially that to U.S. bureau-men working in foreign countries like Mexico, where it can take three weeks of notarizing & counter-notarizing, witnessing & counter-witnessing just to rent a safe deposit box-but not with Rafael Delgado Lozano around. Rafael, known colloquially as Ralph, on 24 hours notice once arranged to have three divisions of the Mexican Army turned out to parade before the cameras of a MARCH OF TIME unit. That was a major miracle. He performs minor ones almost daily, disappearing into the jungles of official red tape to emerge with just the document a harried correspondent needs...
Ralph, according to his bureau chief, John Stanton, is a warm, round, emotional, faintly picaresque Mexican who somehow "manages to remind you vaguely of Queen Victoria." His seemingly inexhaustible, elastic and highly valuable know-how is the result of all that Ralph has been and is. His familiarity with Mexican ways is perhaps best exemplified by his faith in the power of documents. Unimpressed by the ordinary correspondent's press card, he designed his own. It has space for his photograph, for numerous stamps -also of his own design-and for signatures and counter-signatures. The TIME bureau chief...
...that the bureau has planted its "curiosity trap" in the local dailies, all it can do is wait. Wait and see is people want to know how smart they are--or if they'd rather be happy...