Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government, businessmen and the public appear doubtful that he can succeed. If Feather fails, Wilson could be hurt. The latest Gallup polls show that only 25% of the electorate think that the Labor Party can halt the stoppages; 31% think that the Conservatives would do a better job...
...telling me how to run it." So said former Postmaster General and Ambassador to Poland John Gronouski, eager to declare his independence but knowing to whom he owed his appointment as dean of the University of Texas' Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs. Delighted with the job, Gronouski said that he hopes Barry Goldwater, "some of Nixon's people" and even old Great Society gadfly William Fulbright will join Johnson in lecturing at the graduate school...
...inferior to white teachers." The 70 leaders cajoled and insulted the participants in an effort to push them into understanding, or at least into receptivity. One woman burst into tears under the pressure. Another at first wilted under an explosive attack and then threatened to resign from her teaching job. A few older teachers walked...
Chairman Henry Ford II, whose hiring of Knudsen had been widely hailed in Detroit as a managerial masterstroke, walked into Knudsen's office two weeks ago and told him that he was through. Stunned and aggrieved, Knudsen asked why he was being dismissed from his job, which paid him $580,952 last year. As Knudsen told the story, Ford replied only that "things did not work out as I had hoped." At a press conference last week, Ford conceded that he could not think of any Knudsen decisions that he had disagreed with and kept repeating: "It just didn...
...Italian Job, he is Charlie Croker, played by Michael Caine with his bag of standard accessories: cockney locutions, drooping eyelids and acute satyriasis. Charlie uses jail the way some men use their country clubs-to make valuable contacts. Though he is a petty criminal, Charlie contrives to rub shoulders with the larcenist laureate of England, an elegant superpatriot of a prisoner known only as Mr. Bridger (Noel Coward). Britannia waives the rules for Bridger, who affects Savile Row threads, dines alone, and stabilizes sterling by masterminding foreign robberies from his cell...