Word: levers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smiling recruiters from 18 companies will take over 32 rooms in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria this week to interview more than 600 college graduates. On hand will be personnel specialists from Boeing, Bristol-Myers, Chase Manhattan, Equitable Life, Lever Bros., J. C. Penney, Xerox and other giants. The young men who will get the corporate glad hand are some of the most sought after graduates of the class of '64. They hold a variety of degrees, but they have one thing in common: all are Negroes...
...late Democratic Senator Robert Kerr, has the U.S. Senate had anything close to a king. But now moving toward that position is a most unlikely person: Illinois' Everett McKinley Dirksen, 68, a politician of many ups and downs and backs and forths, whose only present power lever is that of leader of an underwhelming minority of 33 Republicans...
...Levers & Virgins. Out of the ancient Egyptian attempts to tame the Nile floods developed the tools of civilization: a 365-day calendar to predict the coming of the flood; a crude astronomy to further refine forecasts; systems of accounting, and, ultimately, written language to handle the stores of grain needed to tide the society over the lean months between the floods; building implements like the wedge, the lever, the screw, the pulley, the inclined plane...
...Lever Bros., where it's in to give brief, breezy names to executives as well as products (All, Lux, Vim, Wisk, Spry), Milton C. Mumford is addressed by colleagues and referred to in company publications merely as "Milt." Along with the little names, however, go big titles: Mumford, 51, has been president and chief executive of Unilever's U.S. arm since 1959; last week he became chairman as well, succeeding retired William H. Burkhart. Illinois-born and educated (University of Illinois '35), Mumford came to soapmaking Lever Bros., ten years ago from towelmaking Fieldcrest Mills. As president...
Unpatriotic Boosts. On the surface, Europe's acute labor shortage hands unions a powerful lever to force management to give ground on wages. European governments hope that labor leaders will consider the overall interests of their national economies and hold demands within limits. German workers, haunted by memories of the worthless inflated marks of the 1920s, already show remarkable restraint, even though they are in one of the tightest of labor markets. The French government is having some success in its campaign to make any wage boost seem unpatriotic. In Britain, Italy and The Netherlands, however, union leaders appear...