Word: interview
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grappled with the task of writing a cover story on fast-moving Bobby Kennedy. Barrett knew just what the reporters were up against. He began writing about Bobby back in 1964 as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune. Among his more harrowing memories is an interview he conducted in a speeding car. Senator Kennedy was driving with one casual hand while the other banged his knee for emphasis. Barrett, his eyes searching for disaster on the road ahead, had an understandably difficult time taking notes...
...joined the Kennedy caravan last week, also found it hectic. But he had his share of anecdotes from previous travels with Hubert Humphrey. "One afternoon in a jet over Nebraska, I suffered a strange chest seizure after eating a hamburger," he remembers. "I was in agony all through an interview with the Vice President." Ex-pharmacist Humphrey rushed to his medicine chest in the tail of the plane and produced a pill. "Take this," he said. "It will relax the spasm in your esophageal tract." It did. Later, Lamont's doctor confirmed the Humphrey diagnosis...
...first episode of Julia, a new TV series, the heroine has just lost her husband, a helicopter pilot, in Viet Nam. To raise her six-year-old son, Julia wants to resume her nursing career. She phones a physician and is immediately offered an interview. But she wavers. "Oh," she asks, "did they tell you I'm colored?" "Mm," he replies, "what color are you?" "Wh-hy, I'm Negro." "Oh," says the doctor. "Have you always been a Negro, or are you just trying to be fashionable...
...Royal Navy in World War II, got a Harvard Business School degree in 1949, quickly decided that "business is more interesting in the U.S. than in Canada." He almost changed his mind in 1954 when, after five years with small Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co., he went for a job interview at Xerox (then Haloid). "It wasn't very impressive," McColough recalls. "I went up to see one of the vice presidents and he had a workman's black lunch pail on his desk and his bookshelf was a painted orange crate." Then he listened to Wilson...
...Council felt that a way of implementing them could and should be found. The mechanism finally proposed in the Council's resolution is designed to prevent hasty or unconsidered action. Under its provisions, a petition to withhold the facilities of the OGCP from an organization wishing to interview there can be initiated only after the organization has been given an opportunity to defend its policies, and the petition must then receive about 1200 signatures of undergraduates who feel that stronger action needs to be taken. It must further be approved by a majority of those voting at a meeting...