Word: hire
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Question: What big-league baseball team would hire a pitcher on the recommendation of an usher in its ballpark? Answer: the New York Mets. O.K. But when that same pitcher then goes out and wins three games in a row, striking out 24 batters, allowing only 15 hits, seven walks and one run in 27 innings - well, that's talent...
Business has also become more popular on campus by taking a lenient attitude toward draft problems. During the Korean War, businessmen rarely considered a student who was liable to be drafted. Now they will hire students who will be drafted within weeks, will also make a place for ROTC students who have to serve two years but would like to know now where they can locate when their service is over...
...first three of Afro's four proposals for Harvard criticize real faults here. An endowed chair for a black professor is not the only mechanism for getting more Negroes on the Faculty, but the University must hire a qualified black social scientist to fill a tenured position. A black man could have the background and experience to teach blacks (and whites) here what no presently tenured Faculty member can. And the University should recruit and train black graduate students, thereby increasing the number of young black Faculty members. Expressions of eager intent are no longer sufficient...
...businessmen among you," it reads, "to pledge to hire draft resisters when they begin to return from jail. We ask the lawyers among you to pledge your legal aid. We ask all of you to pledge your generous financial suport...
...needs are most conspicuous in the impoverished states, many of them new nations. Almost by definition, an underdeveloped country is an undercapitalized country. Struggling to advance from muscle power to the machine, its people anxiously eye their smokeless horizons in search of capital to build factories, hire managers and export young men to universities from Göttingen to Berkeley. They cast an envious glance at such cities as San Juan and Teheran, which have risen from squalor to considerable splendor in less than a generation. The modern influences of communications-tourists, transistor radios, Hollywood films, advertisements-have carried...