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...Aerospace retained a consulting psychologist to counsel employees and assist in management procedures. The psychologist drew up one outline for personnel interviewing that reminded interviewers to grunt "uh-huh" occasionally, instead of talking, in order to draw out applicants. He also advised Aerospace President Dr. Ivan A. Getting that his staff included an unusually large number of "insufficiently adequate personnel...
...difference," says Majority Leader Carl Albert. And the gratitude takes tangible forms. Vice President Hubert Humphrey meets with the freshmen every three weeks, gives them all manner of political advice. Example: If they don't agree with U.S. policy in Viet Nam, just "nod or grunt" to constituents, but let Lyndon run the war. House seminars are held to advise the freshmen about organizing and staffing their office. Photographers are provided to take their pictures for home distribution. The departments of government are under instructions to notify each freshman Congressman about announcements dealing with his district...
...Randy Matson, 20, cupping a 16-lb. steel ball in one huge hand as if it were an egg. Sucking in his breath, he tucked the ball behind his right ear, crouched low, and tapped the ground once, twice, three times with his left toe. Then, with a prodigious grunt that could be heard a full 100 yds. away, he hurled himself across the ring. The shot sailed through the air and bit into the dirt, 67 ft. 11¼ in. away. "That one felt pretty good," sighed Sophomore Matson. It should have: by 1¼ in., he had broken...
...Lusty Grunt...
Holdelburg, dear old Holdelburg, raised stein and sword in a flashing salute to the glory of their institution. Harvard takes its whiskey straight and its pleasures with a lusty grunt...