Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favor of an integrated community." Catcalls from the floor: "Resign! Fire him." Repsholdt squared his shoulders, continued: "One thing is fortunate. If there is any shortage more acute than the shortage in housing, it is the shortage of teachers. I'm not frightened about losing my job." Repsholdt got a big hand for his stand. But he did not roll back the angry majority, which, on a show of hands, had vowed all-out opposition to the integrated subdivision. Murmured one North Shore householder as Deerfielders signed up for the fight "We just can't afford...
...Bang-Jensen himself, the victory proved to be costly. Shortly after the rooftop burning, Hammarskjold fired him for "insubordination." Nearing 50, despondent Povl Bang-Jensen set out in search of a new career to support his American wife and five U.S.-born children. He finally found a job with the CARE international relief organization in Manhattan...
Nonetheless, nearly all the Amherst-bred teachers voiced enthusiasm for their jobs. Reason: "A tremor of excitement coming from the secondary schools." With curriculums in ferment across the country, "notes of boyish idealism" were not uncommon among men in their 505. They forecast exciting opportunities in TV courses, team teaching, counseling. They urged Amherst students to enter a profession "on the way up," suggested that Amherst could thereby help "deflate the grey-flannel success myth" prevalent at "provincial" Ivy League colleges. One prep-school teacher asked: "What other job would pay me to play squash every afternoon? In what other...
...keeping the store's stock-both from Hallmark and from competitors-up-to-date, re-ordering when the cards get low. All the retailer has to do is ring the cash register. While others in the industry also use the system, Hall says that his company does the job more often, thus knows precisely which cards are selling, which are duds, when to introduce new designs...
However, a source close to Stiegman confirmed that he has accepted the Penn job...