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Child custody is ordinary movie fare and positively trite in television, but if the child is white and her stepfather black, the subject gets special in a hurry. Julie Cullen (Actress Barbara Barrie) divorces her husband on grounds of desertion. With her child she moves to a small Midwestern town, takes a job in a factory. Her friendship with a Negro fellow worker (Bernie Hamilton) turns gradually to love. His parents are appalled, warn him "not to marry any damn white woman," and accept the union only when a son is born. Four years later, Julie's first husband...
...whether you take your coeducation gradually, like Harvard and Radcliffe, who have been carrying on an extended courtship practically since her birth, or all at once, like the Internal twin halves of a big midwestern University, chances are you will have to take it sooner or later. Even the oldest bulwarks of bachelorhood and separation are crumbling. Princeton admitted five women this year; Hamilton plans to take 400 by 1970. Men have begun matriculating at Hunter, Bennington, and Smith graduate schools. Yalies even Yalies have been agitating for changes and urging their girlfriends to besiege the admissions office...
...majority of the Lauderdale gang came from the Big Ten and other Midwestern schools, especially state universities. Ohio State topped them all, as about 320 of its sweatshirt lined Atlantic Boulevard. The closest contenders were Florida State, the University of Florida, Wisconsin -- and of course, Miami. Georgia Tech, Notre Dame, University of Cincinnati, and Bowling Green University led the rest of the field...
...work available. With an 8,000,000 car year ahead, Detroit expects to have 13,500 jobs going begging during the next twelve months. Farm-equipment makers are enjoying such a good year that International Harvester and John Deere are scouring the countryside for 50 miles around their Midwestern plants looking for skilled and semiskilled workers. In a Government-watched economy that is ever more conscious of bookkeeping, the young accountant is replacing the young engineer as the prize catch, and many firms are busy raiding college campuses to pick up accounting majors, often offering $600 a month to begin...
...subjects, ranging from employment to industrial inventories. Small businessmen complain that they sometimes have to pay the accountants who handle their forms more than they make themselves, and some big businessmen spend as much as $300,000 a year just answering Defense Department questionnaires. In a single year, one Midwestern farm-products company handled 173 different federal forms, ranging in frequency of filing from daily to annually, and finally turned in a total of 37,683 reports that involved 48,285 man-hours of work...