Word: filles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though it was not a presidential election, the President's political life was at stake. Last week's national polling in the Philippines was held to fill eight of the 24 seats in the Senate, the governorships of 65 provinces and 1,427 town and city halls. The man who campaigned hardest-and had the most to win or lose-was a noncandidate, President Ferdinand Marcos, 50. Marcos chose to make the election a referendum on his two-year record of land reform, public works and school construction, also saw it as an opportunity to win control...
...nation's 13 regional airlines, fare slicing still seems the best way to fill empty seats, most of which are vacant because their new jets provide increased capacity. Ozark, with an operating loss of $240,000 for the first nine months of the year, gives students and military men confirmed space at a 33% discount, lets clergymen fly on a standby basis for half fare. Next month it plans a $30 weekend special allowing a passenger to fly anywhere in the system from Saturday morning to Sunday afternoon. With a similar scheme, Mohawk increased its Saturday traffic...
...organizational maze. Not all are gifted with the ability of Miss Bass, who can be indifferent to associates but finds "it easy and even gratifying to direct fraternal feelings towards large numbers of people living at great distances." Mild staff cynicism naturally accompanies a search for a man to fill a job; he "must walk the middle path-a man of middle years and middle brow was wanted, a man not burdened with significant characteristics...
Gopen's truck has a room for consultations, a table to fill out applications, and even a phone so people can call immediately to check job openings. In seventeen months of operation, Gopen's mobile employment center has over seven hundred part-time and four hundred full-time job placements to its credit. And poverty programs in New Haven and New York have begun to copy Gopen's idea...
Implementing the plan poses several problems. Faculty members might understandably be reluctant to admit pass-fail students to their courses if there were enough regular applicants to fill them. The departments, which exercise authority over concentration requirements, might simply refuse to count pass-fail courses in a person's major. Lastly, it is still unclear just what the letter-grade equivalents will be for "pass" and "fail...