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Most major employers immediately began uncertainly assessing their programs for improving job prospects for women and minority workers lest the Government step in. Notes one high Midwestern executive: "Our firm is vulnerable-hell, everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISCRIMINATION: Goals That Look Like Quotas | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

Modern pilgrims, like Novelist David Ely's Pierce ("Walking") Davis, have no such goal. Davis does not even have a fixed idea of what the Holy Land might be. An ordinary Midwestern auto mechanic with a wife and kids, he has only the urge to put one foot in front of the other and the vague though practical notion that if a common man engaged in such a common activity long enough, he could walk around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sole | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

...emerged this year as a formidable Crimson opponent, after the Terriers adopted a new intensive recruiting policy last winter B.U.'s large core of Eastern and Midwestern high school champions drubbed New England champion Springfield, 27-8, in an early season meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Grapplers Debut in BU Tangle | 12/2/1972 | See Source »

...hard to find. Mills himself, head of the powerful Ways & Means Committee, was the conservatives' favorite, but he has given up any thought of challenging Albert. A few liberal Congressmen wanted Boggs for the job. "I have been very keen for a contest over the speakership," says one Midwestern Democrat. "And I have been in favor of having Hale move up. This thing [Boggs' disappearance] has been a catastrophic blow. What it means is that we are apparently left without an alternative." A sampling taken since Boggs was declared missing indicates that Albert is now safe, and will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Replacing Hale Boggs | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

...Eastern seaboard. His venerable Spalding putter--the one he used to ace out the guy from Columbia on the seventeenth hole--seven cases of Hamm's Beer his DKI sweatshirt, a wrinkled and somewhat threadbare plain jacket from J. Press York Street. New Haven, and one very blonde Midwestern girl--all of it went into a creaking and rather obscene '64 Thunderbird, the same one he had tried unsuccessfully to unload on this ensign from Harvard when he was in the Navy. It had become a ritual even down to the blank check he folded twice and tucked into...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Power of the Press | 11/25/1972 | See Source »

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