Word: hire
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...likes to call The Beautiful People disported themselves amid pink marquees to the music of Lester Lanin, Mark (not Meyer) Davis and an 18-piece twist band. At about 6 a.m. the party broke up, but some 65 of the boys and girls chipped in $5 per couple to hire the twist band for three more hours of fun at a big, old, vacant mansion, which the Leases had rented to house the out-of-town stags...
Fulbright Country. Performers who go abroad for the Government are supposed to be the "most representative" cultural attractions a $2,500,000 budget can hire, and the vast array of U.S. talent leaves any choice open to argument. Until this year, the State Department seemed almost to look for trouble. A Foreign Service officer decided the broad policies, such as "send jazz to Africa," and then individual performers were picked from serpentine lists provided by the American National Theater and Academy, which picked up a fee of $110,000 a year for managing things...
...garden and peep through a window to see him taking his bath. Males bother him too. They say he strides like "a supercharged sports car parading." He once found an eager young fellow lying flat on his back under one of his automobiles, refusing to budge unless Yujiro would hire him as a chauffeur...
...seconds a three-generation ancestry of any one of the 3,700,000 registered Aberdeen Angus beef cattle; an IBM machine tells many farmers, on learning the size and location of their farms, what crops to plant, what fertilizers to use and how many laborers to hire. Computers help to design comfortable brassieres for the garment industry, and have so highly automated many warehouses down to the billing and shipping that Rose Marie Reid swimsuits has cut by 75% the time it takes to ship a suit after getting an order...
...comply with that ruling, the Southern had to hire about 100 men, and that is how Willie Glass and the other Negroes got their new jobs. Explains a Southern executive: "Since firemen have no duties at all to perform, no skills, training, physical standards or education are required. In the circumstances, it seemed reasonable to employ unskilled elderly people who are having a hard time finding jobs." The Southern's move was particularly galling to the Brotherhood because until four weeks ago its constitution prohibited Negroes from becoming members. The infuriated union accused Southern of "disrespectful contempt," planned...