Word: counselors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other schools, students have flocked to special job-hunting courses. Stanford, for example, is offering seniors special courses in Survival Tactics in the Job Market, How to Blow an Interview, and Opportunities in Biology. Frank Heuston, a career counselor at Northeastern, is teaching a special eight-hour seminar in how to land a job. Heuston acknowledges that his techniques "sometimes verge on the unethical" (for instance, he tells seniors to hang around executive bars, where they might meet prospective employers), but he says they work...
...become Miss U.S.A., I would have become a counselor for the Girl Scouts this summer," said Summer Bartholomew, 23, sounding like any old girl-next-door. After collecting this year's Miss U.S.A. crown at Niagara Falls, however, the Merced, Calif., beauty has forsaken the scouting life for the banquet circuit and a shot at the Miss Universe title in San Salvador in a month. On her first-ever visit to New York City, Summer talked about her victory ("My first thought was to thank the Lord") and her recent trip to Niagara Falls ("That's where...
...side of the building. When Swedish police shouted "Hände hoch!" (Hands up), the five meekly surrendered. In the meantime the hostages scrambled to safety. Later police found the bodies of the sixth gang member (apparently killed by the explosions) and the embassy's economic counselor, whom the terrorists had murdered. Next day the Swedish government returned four of the five captured terrorists to West Germany for justice; the fifth had suffered such severe burns that he could not yet be moved...
...visiting schools. They ask to see any students interested in coming to Harvard, and not to see only a particular group. "If the school is predominately black," according to Robinson, "I expect to see mainly black students. If they don't show up then I might ask the guidance counselor to see black students...
...Harvard and Radcliffe administrations traditionally encouraged students to take a break during their four-year stints in college, this fall. President Bok, in his greeting to the incoming freshman class, pointed out the value of taking a leave of absence at some point in the college career. As a counselor at the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning says, he would prefer to work with a confused student looking for direction at age 19, with two years of school still to come, than a college graduate who still has no idea of what's ahead...