Word: omaha
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...white hospitals and teachers in white schools. Boston's Negro newspaper has six pages of want ads for everybody from laboratory technicians to plasma physicists. In Milwaukee, Chicago and Providence, corporations have joined together to seek ways of finding more Negro workers and executive trainees; in Minneapolis, Omaha and San Francisco, corporate recruiters flock to interview thousands of Negroes at "job fairs." A dozen recently created personnel agencies specialize in Negroes, and almost every Negro graduate with a good college record can count on from three to twelve job offers...
Kurd Hurdle. This month AID began the second year of its drive to enlist skilled workers for Viet Nam. In the New York City area, 5,210 applicants, of whom perhaps 200 will qualify, swamped recruiters. Last week in Omaha, 285 responded to AID's campaign, and 23 qualified for serious consideration. The AID party then went on to Denver and Portland, Ore. By Christmas the agency needs 500 new agronomists, public administrators, teachers, economists, engineers, police specialists, auditors, nurses and secretaries...
David Werp, 28, a market researcher, drove 100 miles from Sioux City to Omaha in hopes of becoming an AID aide. "I've wanted to do something for my country since I was a kid," said Werp, who has a physical disability that kept him out of military service. Volunteers must meet demanding professional requirements, pass stringent medical tests and undergo a security check. The toughest hurdle is a linguistic-aptitude test, aimed at gauging their ability to learn the six-tone Vietnamese tongue, that includes memorizing a string of Kurdish words. "Musicians do well on it," says Simpson...
This is the flavor of the pan-Freud potatoes that Comedienne Rivers was dispensing last week at the Manhattan nightclub Downstairs at the Upstairs. She is very funny potatoes indeed, and she delivers with plenty of peeling. She tells about the time she was playing Omaha. "I was staying in a hotel where there was a bake-off contest. All the women drove up in their tractors. Bert Parks was there. He sang the bake-off song. The judges consisted of Kate Smith." Or the time in England that she saw the Queen Mother. "She's so cute...
CHRIS GARVEY Omaha...