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Kane found the three weeks he spent traveling with the Tigers a kind of on-the-job vacation. As a ball fan who grew up in Washington, D.C., and learned the game by watching the ever-losing Senators, he found it pleasant to be with a winner for a change. "While my associates were involved with more serious problems-convention coverage and urban warfare-I was utterly consumed with baseball. I sat through some fifteen ball games, including a doubleheader that had a 19-inning second game. I was never bored for a minute...
...black reporters, film men and technicians. In the past few weeks, TV channels in New Orleans, Miami and St. Paul have added Negro staffers. They are not easy to find since, as in so many other fields, too few Negroes have had training. Many stations are offering on-the-job experience to likely prospects and giving preferential treatment to black applicants. Network-level Negroes include ABC's U.N. Correspondent Mai Goode and some top local newscasters on network-affiliated stations, such as Bob Teague and Gil Noble in New York, Bill Matney and Les Brownlee in Chicago...
Campaign Themes. Under JOBS (for Job Opportunities in Business Sector), the Government will refer the unskilled to one or another of 103 companies that have shown interest in the program. The firms would provide on-the-job training, with Washington picking up the tab for all extra costs (transportation, education, medical services) up to an annual $3,500 per worker. The aim: to put 100,000 hard-core unemployed on the job by June 1969, and 500,000 to work by 1971. To coordinate the plan, the President created a 65-man "Alliance committee," chaired by Henry Ford II, whose...
...Reuther's demand that company-paid U.A.W. committeemen be allowed to work full time on union business-as they do at Ford and Chrysler-without having to put m any time at their regular jobs. To solve that, G.M. agreed to free some committie altogether while paring on-the-job time for others...
Federal subsidies for on-the-job training programs (OJT), especially since the cutbacks due to the Vietnam War, do not fill the training gap. Gopen points out that there are now only 380 individual contracts for OJT available...