Word: forded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cruel & Inhuman. In a buoyant mood, Johnson wheeled a brown and white Ford station wagon around the ranch, and an 18-ft. speedboat around Lake Lyndon B. Johnson. At the July 4 christening of his grandson Patrick Lyndon in St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church near the ranch, the President watched the boy being passed from one relative to another during a picture-taking session, quipped: "This is unconstitutional. It's cruel and inhuman treatment." Afterward, the President and Lady Bird flew to Texarkana for the funeral of Representative Wright Patman's wife, then made a sentimental journey...
...employer found the pickings easy. Wringing its Esso tiger's tale once again, Houston's Humble Oil & Refining Co. sent heavily publicized "Tiger Teams" to 300 campuses, managed to fill a record quota of 825 jobs. But Ford deployed 340 recruiters to find 2,000 new graduates, figures to wind up with only 1,500 or so. Chicago's Inland Steel sweetened its 1966 salaries by as much as 8%, still fell so short of engineers that it began scouring Canadian campuses. Illinois Bell Telephone recruiters confess that "we even hired a theology student last month...
Miles College in Birmingham Alabama, where former Harvard Dean John U. Monro '35 has just begun his duties as dean of freshman studies, is one of 52 southern Negro colleges sharing a $1.1-million grant from the Ford Foundation...
...Ford Foundation hopes that concentrating the initially small sums of money available on such problems as inadequate faculties and deficient facilities will open the way to support from the Federal government...
Lucius H. Pitts, president of the college, has been discussing the grant with Ford officials for the past few weeks, Monro said in a telephone interview yesterday. He pointed out that Birmingham-Southern has a good academic standing and has showed itself willing to help Miles in the past...