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...Daylight Time; federal offices shifted obediently, then moved their office hours up one hour to cancel out the off-phase effect. State-operated liquor stores closed on Daylight, but bars grabbed an extra late hour of business by sticking to Standard Time. The twin cities of Calumet and Hancock could not agree and so divided...
...graduating seniors congratulatory cards (with job interview proposed), and takes out advertisements in yearbooks. Eastern Airlines, which is trying to increase its work force from 26,000 to 33,000 people, has hired retired stewardesses in 30 cities, sends them out to recruit younger girls. In Boston, John Hancock Life Insurance Co. advertises for secretarial help on rock-'n'-roll radio stations, brags that its main office is near "the grooviest shops in town." Competing New England Mutual Life Insurance will pay an employee $25 for persuading a friend to join the company, another $75 if the friend...
Bennett is an investor; he doesn't see the Harvard fund as different from the John Hancock Mutual Fund in terms of how it should be handled. His job is "to invest and reinvest the billion to provide the largest possible income." If his investments go the least bit sour, the pinch may be felt from Wigglesworth to Mallinckrodt. There's a hot line on George Bennett's desk--it goes directly to Cambridge. But some critics, with memories of the Middle South controversy, think a wall of dollars has sprung up somewhere in between
...from the Boston area, "and this summer thousands of us will sweep across the country," he says with a magnificent sweeping gesture. Money was also a result of the visit. It is not certain whether he got any at Harvard, but after a Sing-Out the week before in Hancock Hall in Boston, Sayre was reportedly handed a $10,000 check...
...woman is now trying to locate an elm tree supposedly planted in Boston Common by John Hancock. Several other volunteers are concentrating on the problem of air and water pollution, filing literature on the subject as it appears in newspapers and magazines, and operating a library and Environmental Information Center in one room of the Civic Center's office...