Word: jobs
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...FIXER. A generally faithful and often moving adaptation of Bernard Malamud's Pulitzer prizewinning novel about the passion of a modern Job. Under the careful and inventive direction of John Frankenheimer, the cast-notably Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holme-bring to the film a moral force reminiscent of Dostoevsky...
...dared to do. In defiance of all the crustacean traditions of the U.S. Senate, Massachusetts' Kennedy, with but six years' tenure, challenged and defeated Assistant Majority Leader Russell Long, who is 50 and has 20 years of service in the upper chamber. Ted Kennedy easily won the job of whip, the No. 2 party role in the Senate-next to Majority Leader Mike Mansfield-and a post whose power, limited as it is, he will probably use to the hilt...
...when he shows up in person everyone sits in stunned silence." Last summer, Packard hired Phil Taubman, a Stanford Daily editor and TIME campus correspondent, as "radical in residence," with free rein to look into any aspects of Hewlett-Packard's operations he chose. "The type of job reflects Packard's style," Taubman reports. "I now have a less stereotyped image of the business world. But I still see business as a barely enlightened force for creative change in American society...
...also been assigned to Korea, China, Manchuria, Brazil, the Philippines, Czechoslovakia, Thailand and Viet Nam. He will be the No. 3 man, Under Secretary for Political Affairs. Johnson's appointment was particularly popular with career foreign-service officers, whose Foreign Service Association recently recommended that the No. 3 job go to a professional diplomat. Nixon also announced that he would ask Ellsworth Bunker, 74, the U.S. Ambassador in Saigon, to stay on in South Viet Nam for the time being...
...federal parliament. At the behest of the Russians, the realists have started a campaign to take that post away from Smrkovský. The workers, including the 900,000 members of the metalworkers' union, have pledged to go out on strike if Smrkovský is not given the job-and thousands of students have made similar vows. The issue of the appointment will not be decided for another week or so, but Smrkovský's ouster just might fan the smoldering embers of discontent in Czechoslovakia into a blaze...