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Hiring other personnel proved harder. Garfield's white nursing director quit shortly after the merger: Showalter desperately replaced her with a black male nurse who lacked the generally required bachelor's degree. Other appointments were equally unorthodox. Garfield's personnel director is a former inventory clerk at a local faucet factory; the food-service manager is a onetime hospital kitchen worker whose ability to run a kitchen more than compensates for her lack of training in dietetics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Caring for the Community | 2/15/1971 | See Source »

Instead of bemoaning college costs, many a U.S. student may soon calmly tell the bursar's office, "I'd like to charge that for the next 30 years." The clerk may answer, "Sign here-but skip the total. How much you pay will depend on how rich you become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Learn Now, Pay Later | 2/1/1971 | See Source »

After graduating magna cum laude from the City College of New York in 1940, Sacks received his LL.B. magna cum laude from Harvard in 1948. He was law clerk to Judge Augustus N. Hand of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 1948-49, and to Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter the following year...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Pusey Names Albert Sacks Law School's Acting Dean | 1/25/1971 | See Source »

...wife, who was catnapping, her head resting on his shoulder. But soon he was surrounded by a gaggle of American youngsters heading home from a skiing trip. They excitedly demanded autographs, and Senator Edmund Muskie happily complied. The lanky Democrat from Maine was also recognized by a London shop clerk when he stopped to buy a sweater, by tourists at Jerusalem's Shrine of the Book, and even by occupants of a kibbutz in the Negev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Muskie Hits the Trail | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

...prison can be blamed. In a Harris poll, 72% of Americans endorsed rehabilitation as the prison goal. But when it came to hiring an ex-armed robber who had shot someone, for example, 43% would hesitate to employ him as janitor, much less as a salesman (54%) or a clerk handling money (71%). This is obviously understandable; it also teaches ex-cons that crime pays because nothing else does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Shame of the Prisons | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

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