Word: hire
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elegant techniques of past masters with a warm understanding that elevates virtuosity into art. But Stern's violin (a Guarnerius) still belongs to the breed that Paganini played-and remains a remarkably recalcitrant instrument.* Musicians avoid it so studiously that even major orchestras find it difficult to hire string-section replacements. But Stern and four other greatly gifted players have lifted the solo violin to an eminence any age could envy. Standing with Stern as the world's finest: Zino Francescatti, David Oistrakh, Nathan Milstein, Jascha Heifetz...
...would welcome a Secretary of State who would be bold enough to fire most of the State Department personnel, hire new faces, and thus stop losing battle after battle with the Communists...
...backing of a school administration, largely Negro, that is fiercely dedicated to upgrading Negroes on the economic scale-first by the best possible training, second by fighting for job opportunities. Assistant Principal Victor D. Lewis recalls, for example, "a big decorating firm downtown that wouldn't hire a Negro, even to clean a brush. Now one of our people is a foreman there. We simply produced a good decorator and challenged them to hire...
...other Chicago schools, holds afternoon classes for unemployed youngsters in everything from job hunting to repairing electric toasters and preparing for civil service exams. In the evening, it teaches new skills to 3,100 adult students. Moreover, some of Dunbar's teachers have their own outside businesses and hire graduates. "Our problem is not placement," says Dunbar's Assistant Principal Everett M. Renfroe. "It's training more people." Nor do Renfroe and his colleagues fear automation. "We don't think of it as wiping out jobs," says Renfroe, "but as creating new ones...
...bank's president and then chairman. He had livened things by actively seeking new clients, e.g. advertising on the society pages. Strong cast aside the tradition that U.S. Trust chief officers linger on (one quit at 104). And he reached into the outside banking world to hire as president and his eventual successor tall, handsome Hoyt Ammidon (Yale, '32). Ammidon was a 20-year veteran at New York's Central Hanover Bank and Trust Co., and for five years personal-investment manager for Multimillionaire Vincent Astor. Last week, right on schedule. Strong retired at 65, and Ammidon...