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This is a way to improve storage of and access to information for statistical uses. It would not have an interest in building up dossiers on individuals." A vigorous opponent of the data center, Vance Packard (The Hidden Persuaders), cited a case in which a department store refused to hire a man because his computerized record showed that at the age of 13 he had stolen $2 worth of fishing line. Argued Packard: "The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer." Seconded Charles A: Reich, Yale professor of constitutional law: "We are establishing a doctrine...
...recently, the new papers of the left that have managed to survive have made it on their own. Now, to better their condition, five of them are banding together in something called the Underground Press Syndicate, a vague alliance through which they hope to exchange articles, columns and cartoons, hire one agency to solicit advertising for all of them, and divide up all income. The five...
...part, Douglas is a victim of its own success. The company blames its losses, after a good first quarter, on unexpected cost increases caused by rapid expansion, and an acute shortage of seasoned aircraft workers. The company has not only been forced to undertake expensive training programs but to hire 31,000 employees in six months. Most of all, Douglas has been hit by a slowdown in deliveries of Pratt & Whitney jet engines, diverted to fighter planes bound for Viet Nam. As a consequence, Douglas expects that it will have to delay until next year the completion...
...cleaning establishments-through their organization, the National Federation of Cleaning and Environmental Sanitation Associations-were trying to lobby the upstarts out of business. The Japanese Diet, in fact, was about to pass a special bill that would require automated shops to adopt a variety of expensive "sanitation" measures, and hire unneeded engineering technicians to watch the operation of the machines...
They have been spurred by publicity about the Government's campaigns to help them find work. Under federal sponsorship, such personalities as Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, Astronaut Frank Borman and Mickey Mantle are making televised appeals to businessmen to hire young people. Disturbed that few companies are eager to hire unseasoned or draft-eligible workers, the Government has ordered federal agencies to take on one temporary employee this summer for every hundred regulars on the roll. The program is paying off. Of the 1,000,000 teen-agers searching for summer work, at least two-thirds should find...