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...cost is relatively low. Job Corps trainees cost the Government an average of more than $7,000 per man, and the dropout rate is higher. One NAB official predicts that the average JOBS trainee in his region will pay the Government's investment back in as few as 20 months through his own taxes and his absence from welfare rolls...
Neither the economic nor the human success of the program is achieved without some hardship. Says Boston's NAB director, Joe Breiteneicher: "You've got to get whites already on the job to work alongside the black, the ex-con, the dropout, and we're often sending them all three in one." The new employees are sometimes met with hostility: a Negro in Boston was run down by a fork lift, another was felled by a dropped pallet...
Last week the merger prospects vanished as suddenly as they had appeared. In a joint statement that was every bit as unexpected as their September song, McColough and C.I.T. Chairman L. Walter Lundell announced a "mutual agreement" to drop the matter. They offered no reason for the dropout. The two companies did, however, have some explaining to do-if only to their own people. One nonplussed C.I.T. director complained to newsmen that he had been taken by surprise both in September and by last week's announcement. The idea had been broached and the two companies had launched studies...
...college dropout during the Depression, Fink went back to City College in 1956, and is now working on his master's in public administration at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He talks to his men as if they too were in the classroom. "You can't go out there with the idea that hippies are a problem," he lectures his men at roll call. "You can't stand there with a stolid countenance. Don't wait for them to break the ice. You have to initiate the communication...
...said, 108 Americans and two Canadians chartered a plane and flew to Baguio, summer capital of the Philippines. They were seeking "psychic surgery" at the hands of Antonio Agpaoa, who styles himself "Dr. Tony." Where Agpaoa ever picked up the title of Dr. is unclear; he is a school dropout (at the third grade) and, said Dorman, is a former sleight-of-hand artist. He claims that he can perform abdominal, heart and even brain surgery with his bare hands, using no anesthesia or aseptic precautions. He also claims that he can close the surgical opening without leaving a scar...