Word: hire
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...turning up in all sizes and colors: WATCHING TV MAKES YOU STERILE, APPLE PIE IS FLUORIDATED, GOD IS ALIVE AND HIDING IN ARGENTINA, CONSERVE WATER-SHOWER WITH A FRIEND. In Los Angeles, Adman Emil Reisman has started national distribution of his stickers, including USE EROGENOUS ZONE NUMBERS and HIRE THE MORALLY HANDICAPPED. "The Sticker thing," muses Reisman, "is sort of related to drawing beards on ad ladies in subways," which just about says...
Richard M. Nixon, in Cambridge to hire Law students, says that "the Vietnam war is going better for the United States." John Kenneth Galbraith, H. Stuart Hughes, and Mark DeWolfe Howe defend students' right to protest, and there are an antiwar rally in the Yard and an antiwar march to the Boston Common. Graduate students and undergraduates who were 2-S are reclassified...
Only concerted action by such major universities is likely to break the Ph.D. fixation of most colleges, which constantly compare the percentage of Ph.D.s on their faculties. Donald E. Queller, associate dean of the University of Southern California Graduate School, contends that many colleges hire Ph.D.s but "just want the letters. If they get a fellow who is as interested in scholarship and research as Ph.D.s are supposed to be, they are horrified. They don't know what to do with him." Promotions and higher pay seldom go to the teacher without a Ph.D., and since more than half...
Stokowski can get away with adventuresome programming simply because he is the undisputed boss of the whole works. Since all of the players are hired on a one-performance basis, Stokowski can hire and fire without interference from his old nemeses, the unions and the trustees. Whenever a musician makes a mistake, he is painfully aware that there are replacements waiting ten-deep in the wings. Each week Stokowski auditions 20 aspirants in his penthouse on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, carefully grades them, and enters their names in a black looseleaf notebook that bulges with his ratings...
ITEM: Millard Lampell, who got an award for scriptwriting, stated: "I think everybody ought to know that I was blacklisted for ten years." Response was positive, applause lasted over ten seconds. Let Personnel search files, find the blacklist I compiled in 1955, hire any three writers on it, then instruct Public Relations to leak story to the newspapers, playing up liberalizing of network, integrity...