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...February, reports the nonprofit College Placement Council, job offers to seniors were up 26% over those made to the class of '73. And by last week, when the recruiting season ended at many colleges, more companies had visited more campuses and conducted more interviews than at any time in the past four years. The business interest seems paradoxical since the economy is threatened with that worst of all combinations, an inflationary recession. But many companies are still flush with the profits of boom-year 1973; they are going ahead with expansion plans and looking for new employees...
Polizzi has joined 1,100 of the area's 1,500 families in a nonprofit development corporation to guide the future of the area. In its four years' existence, the corporation has found 60 jobs for new -and old-residents in the neighborhood's salami and macaroni factories, tool company and glass factory. It has set up a summer youth program and hired students at $1 an hour to spruce up the area. The students redecorated the Hill's hydrants and trash cans in red, white and green (the colors of the Italian flag). More than...
Roger Hill, a San Francisco biology teacher who has 9,600 programs in his personal collection, organized the nonprofit North American Radio Archives (P.O. Box 13114, Station E., Oakland, Calif. 94661) last year to preserve and distribute tapes of old shows (rental price to members: 50? each). The Boston area's Radio Collectors of America (R.C.A.) (23 Winthrop Rd., Hingham, Mass. 02043) gathers programs and distributes tapes to libraries for the blind across the country. It also holds animated group discussions ("Would Henry Aldrich make it in today's sexy-dopey-violent teen-age world...
...credit service surcharge of anywhere from 2% to 8% to the price of their product or service. Though cash customers do not benefit from the credit system, they in effect help to subsidize it because they pay the higher prices too. The situation smacked of price fixing to the nonprofit Consumers Union. So last February it brought an anti-trust suit against the most prestigious credit card company of all, American Express Co., charging that the company forbade merchants who accepted its card to give discounts to cash customers...
...free ride for challengers. Some conservatives fret that public financing, especially if it is combined with strict limitations on private contributions, would give a big edge to liberal, issue-oriented candidates who can mobilize unpaid volunteers-students, housewives, union members. As Herbert E. Alexander, director of the nonprofit Princeton-based Citizens' Research Foundation, points out: "For a person with money, it's easier to write out a check than it is to give time...