Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most ambitious of the new proposals is the $2.1 billion manpower program, under which the President hopes to forge a partnership between industry and Government to provide jobs for the hard-core unemployed. Last year's "concentrated employment program" conducted by the Labor Department identified some 500,000 Americans-mostly Negro, Puerto Rican and Mexican-American slum dwellers-who have never had jobs or who face serious employment handicaps...
...wounded by flashlight, and Narrator Greene would ask plaintively: "How many bombs will it take to destroy the tens of thousands of people who move rivers with their hands?" Four peasant girls worked cheerfully at a waterway in clothes that seemed more for Sunday than for hard labor. At the fade, a genial "Uncle Ho" was seen touring among his admiring people...
With understandable relief and considerable pride, Pusey last week announced the results of his two most recent dean hunts. Succeeding Griswold at the Law School is Derek Curtis Bok, 37, son of a former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice, an authority on labor law and a member of the university's faculty since 1958. Co-author (with Harvard's Archibald Cox) of the classic textbook on labor law, Bok has had experience as a strike mediator and is well liked by his students, who consider him less frostily distant than Griswold. Heading the Divinity School is Stockholm-born Krister...
...planned the tactics and organized the arguments that led to one of the largest mergers in corporate history. It was Saunders who held the pieces together during the frequent assaults from competitors concerned about the Penn Central's potential power; it was Saunders who won over dubious labor leaders, worried lest future economies lead to fewer jobs. Above all, it was Saunders, the lawyer-turned-railroader, who convinced the Interstate Commerce...
Nevertheless, sentiment for free tuition is not completely unfounded. Society also benefits if its electorate and labor force are well educated, and it has a vital interest in helping maintain its educational institutions. The second question uncovers the greatest trouble with the Zaccharias plan: the Bank might serve to excuse the nation from its responsibility to educate its citizens...