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...Omission. The search for work is intense. So many job seekers want to enlist in the armed forces that recruiters have raised admission standards, and the Air Force even turns down some men with master's degrees. All over the U.S. employers find they can fill jobs that pay only $2 or $2.25 an hour for gas station attendants, security guards, dishwashers. Those openings are often grabbed up by people who used to earn twice or three times as much. To get any job at all, some people are downplaying their talents and training, hoping to avoid the stigma...
...essential that our railroads be revitalized, and I recognize this important first step by U.S.R.A. in identifying some of the problems. But I believe additional consideration must be given to new ways for bringing our railroads back to life. Perhaps we could enlist the U.S. Travel Service to encourage rail use by foreign travelers during the Bicentennial period. This, of course, would mean that rail improvement must involve local planning, rather than leave the burden solely to federal and state assistance...
Whether or not original theater is actively, albeit covertly, discouraged at Harvard, it undoubtedly has not been encouraged in the recent past. Boundless enthusiasm, confidence and energy, combined with craftiness, financial sense and the ability to enlist help from all sides, tied up with pullable strings, have been the prerequisites for bulldozing an original show through all the red tape and arbitrariness that clutters up the path to production. And unless authors and composers--who very often are not accepted "theater people" with ready made connections--are already wired in to one organization or another, the alternative for the sake...
...uncertainty. Andrew, the eldest (Alan Bates), has forsaken a legal career to paint geometric canvases. His flattery and good will always carry an edge of irony that barely conceals a fearful rage. Out of the urgencies of inner demons, he proposes a familial "vengeance," in which he wants to enlist the brothers. Colin (James Bolam) is a glib expert in "industrial relations." Steven, the youngest (Brian Cox), is fighting unsuccessfully to finish a novel. He expresses himself in tentative gestures and terse sentences. Yet it is he who manages to put the crucial point to Andrew: "Exactly what kind...
Lodge served as a Republican in the Senate from 1936 until 1942, when he resigned to enlist in the Army. He was reelected to the Senate from Massachusetts in 1945, and was U.S. representative to the U.N. and on the Security Council from 1953 to 1960. He served as U.S. ambassador to Saigon from 1963 to 1964 and again from...