Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles Bureau Chief Marshall Berges took on the job of providing an overview from the state government and community leaders. Martin Sullivan, recently arrived from Montreal, went into the East Los Angeles barrios to distill the Mexican-American way of life-and found the Chicanos strikingly similar in mood and plaint to their French-Canadian cousins in Quebec. Sandra Burton observed the importation of "green-card" nonunion workers from Mexico and covered the climax of a 100-mile march between El Centro and Calexico, in which, she reports, the heat hit 120° and blisters "were like merit badges...
...party symbol to convey strength, Nixon again allowed himself to be put into a posture of vacillation and weakness. The issue, in isolation, was hardly a major one -the appointment of an Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. But the job had been vacant since the new Administration took office, though HEW Secretary Robert Finch had selected Dr. John Knowles in January. After a final week of embarrassing indecision, the Administration yielded to the concerted pressure of organized medicine and a handful of conservative Congressmen. Knowles was dumped and Finch humiliated...
Logical Choice. Shortly after Finch was appointed Secretary of HEW, he dutifully checked with the American Medical Association about whom it would prefer for the Assistant Secretary's job. The association proposed Dr. Clarke Wescoe, outgoing chancellor of the University of Kansas. When Finch called Wescoe, he found that he was unavailable. Having done the A.M.A.'s bidding -and miffed that the A.M.A. had not checked to see whether its candidate was willing-Finch contacted Knowles...
...Trying to find a job. It's fight...
...action's virtue that one must take this, rather than its ostensible police-protection plot, as the film's subject. Steve McQueen plays a detective lieutenant whose chief shields him from an ambitious politician (Robert Vaughan, played for a straight heavy). The script puts McQueen's responsibility for his job in personal terms--his relations to his chief, battles with his own conscience, personal conduct...