Word: hire
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...open and honest election, Chang might well win again. But the police and Rhee's administration have resources of their own. Chang found himself unable to hire public halls or athletic fields, and bus and taxi service was mysteriously "suspended" whenever Democrats tried to hold meetings. At Suwon, Chang had to hold his rally on a high, bare hilltop while white police Jeeps filled with black-uniformed cops circled the hill and held attendance down...
Last week Capital was ordered to hire Miss Banks, after an informal attempt failed to persuade the line to give her a stewardess' job and thereby avoid a legal order-as TWA had done two years ago when a similar complaint was filed against it. Capital not only denied discrimination against Miss Banks, but argued that New York State had no jurisdiction since Capital's home office is in Washington...
...Washington's quiet scandals is that few Negro construction craftsmen can get jobs in the nation's capital. Reason: most building contractors hire only union workers (a union shop is required on Government jobs), and many Washington building-trades locals have successfully barred Negroes. While the Hod Carriers and the Bricklayers have let down color bars, the two Carpenters' locals (5,000 members) have only half a dozen Negroes. The Rodmen's local (membership: 250) has six. The Painters (membership: 700) and the Plumbers (700) are proudly lily white. But by far the hardest nosed...
...Bible"). Education is an "undynamic, unprogressive industry," said Coombs. "There has not been a profoundly radical innovation in the technology of education since the invention of the book." Suggested Coombs: every school system in the country should forthwith spend 2% of its budget for a topnotch research division and hire "a vice president in charge of heresy...
...financial and cultural capital of the horseshoe-and of Canada-is sprawling, fast-growing Toronto (metropolitan pop. 1,500,000, second only to Montreal's 1,600,000). One of the continent's genuine boom towns, Toronto encourages light industry; only a handful of factories hire more than 500 men. But more good money than good planning has gone into the horseshoe's erratic growth. While Toronto is a pretty, leafy city, most of the others are depressingly ugly, and Chairman Frederick Gardiner of the Toronto Metropolitan Council warns that by 1975 the area will...