Word: filles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because of the borrowing of words from other languages, the new work will add five letters-J, K, W, X and Y-that have not been part of the formal Italian alphabet. It will cost about $5,000,000, fill 20 volumes, each 1,000 pages thick. It is all a labor of love for the academy's dynamic President Giacomo Devoto, who at 67 is not likely to live much beyond the publication of Volume I, scheduled...
...more and more U.S. companies expand their international operations, they are turning increasingly to men with overseas experience to fill the top executive jobs. Last week Chas. Pfizer & Co., the nation's largest ethical drug company, followed the overseas route to executive leadership. As its new president and chief executive officer, it picked John J. Powers, 52, the chief of its international operations for the past 14 years. Powers takes over as Pfizer's boss from John E. McKeen, 61, who will retain his position as chairman...
...Warren Wiggins, 42, an associate director of the Peace Corps since it began in 1961, was named deputy director, will fill the vacancy left by Bill Moyers, who has been on leave from the Peace Corps as a White House special assistant. An Arizonan, Wiggins left a distinguished twelve-year career with the U.S.'s foreign aid programs to join the Peace Corps, has been credited by Peace Corps Director R. Sargent Shriver as being "more than any other man" responsible for making the Corps work. Wiggins will supervise the activities of the Peace Corps' 10,683 volunteers...
Macy turned his scouting job into a near science. By now, he has assembled about 25,000 qualified names for the top 400 positions that a President may be called upon to fill and has put the names and basic qualifications on computer punch cards. In addition, there is a further dossier on each person, containing information about family, recommendations, personality and professional record. For each major job, there is a "position file" that records job requirements and the history of those who, down through the years, have held the positions...
...median yearly income is still only $2,520, compared to the white Southerner's $5,565, which in turn is $935 below the national median for whites. Many Southern Negroes will remain too poor to go to restaurants and theaters now open to them, too uneducated to fill any new jobs that might possibly now be available; they will continue to live in Possum Hollows, ill fed and ill clothed. They face bitterness and disillusion, which are the natural aftermath of revolutions. A little progress only sharpens the hunger for more progress, as Charles Silberman points out in Crisis...