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...were Negro. Under past practice the figure would have been only 3%. At least 50 large firms are actively recruiting Negroes. They include A.T. & T., National Tea, IBM, Western Electric, General Electric, Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), RCA. Seven New York companies recently contributed $6,000 each to conduct an eleven-week course in grooming and confidence-building techniques to help Negro secretarial school graduates land jobs. Connecticut's Pitney-Bowes, manufacturers of mailing machines, announced a policy of preferential hiring for Negroes. In the South, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. built a new plant in Winston-Salem, N.C., uses Negroes...
...maitre d'hotel, two housekeepers, four butlers, six cooks, a valet, five doormen, five housemen, a head laundress, a pantry woman, eight maids, eight engineers, four carpenters, four electricians, three plumbers, two storekeepers, a painter, ten laborers and eleven gardeners...
...Circus. Gifford never was very fast, and after eleven seasons he may even have lost a step or two. But he does have one advantage over defensive halfbacks who run the 100 in 9.5 sec.: "I know where I'm going-they don't." Daintily, he trotted out to the flank in his sneakers. The ball was snapped, and he ran straight up to Glass, dipped his right shoulder as if to cut toward the sideline, then whirled and streaked across the field-leaving Glass with his legs hopelessly crossed. Tittle threw-and for a long instant...
Southern school desegregation is inching ahead in 17 states and the District of Columbia. Of the region's 3,403,925 Negro pupils, reported the Southern School News last week, 314,571 - or 9.2% - now attend schools with whites, compared with 6.9% in May 1961. In eleven ex-Confederate states, the rate is still only 1.06%, but in six border states and the District of Columbia it has reached...
...haphazard and ineffectual. Efforts to revitalize the company were snarled by lack of cash and a series of incredible production snafus. In the past five years, Studebaker has lost at least $40 million in automaking; this year, despite the introduction of pleasantly restyled 1964 models, sales for the first eleven months fell to 59,742 cars. Last month Studebaker's directors fired President Sherwood Egbert, who insisted on staying in auto production, to clear the way for getting out of the auto business; in his place they put Burlingame, 63, a financial man, with orders to stem the losses...