Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They drift in, and they drift out," explains William N. Wilson Jr., employment director of the Detroit Urban League. Probably no more than a quarter of the 23,000 men originally hired are still at work; at Chrysler, which hired 12,000, the figure is no better than one in ten. "Maybe 100,000 persons have been working on all 23,000 jobs in the past five months," says Wilson. Chrysler was so shocked by its own record that it has given a local social agency $500,000 to find out what went wrong...
...look for singles with "extended families" -people who live with, or at least close to, parents, brothers and sisters and other relatives. "We also like to see applicants demonstrate stubbornness, independence and personal confidence in the face of possible dissent over what they are doing," says Raymond Mondloh, casework director of the Children's Home Society in St. Paul...
...able to be so choosy in selecting foster parents, have decided that half a home is better than none. This is especially true where the child is older or is of racially mixed parentage-situations in which adoptive couples are often impossible to come by. Explains Walter A. Heath, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Adoptions, which pioneered single adoption two years ago and has already placed 42 orphans: "They were all children for whom two parents just could not be found...
...childless widow of 56, now has a three-year-old son and a nine-month-old daughter. Says she: "I wish I had the resources to take a dozen." Women who have never married brush aside any implication that being a mother should cause comment. Chortles Louise Guenthner, 59, director of the Washington State Adoption Resources Exchange, who adopted an eleven-year-old Greek orphan and his nine-year-old sister: "It delights me when I am introduced as 'Miss Guenthner, an unmarried mother...
...outcry against Volpe's proposed site seems to have already begun. Arthur G. Coffey, director of administrative service for Boston, said the city would be opposed to locating the yards in Dorchester. "I'm certain there are other sites available," he said in a newspaper report yesterday...