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...Alliance is asking firms like Polaroid to accept its members in special training programs. The programs will have a period of adjustment before on-the-job training...
Mendoza learned his Yankee savvy at the National University of Mexico, where he supplemented his studies by reading all the U.S. engineering trade magazines he could find. To get some on-the-job training, he took a laborer's job at night at a caustic-soda plant being constructed by Chemico of New York. There, by his own recollection, he picked the brains of every American technician he could find. It was, he says, a "live opportunity...
...On-the-Job Training. Last week Oklahoma's regents named a new president to succeed Cross, who plans to retire in 1968 after 24 years in office. He is John Herbert Hollomon, 48, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce. A pipe-smoking yachtsman with a doctorate in metallurgy from M.I.T., Hollomon was general manager of the General Electric laboratory in Schenectady, N.Y., when President Kennedy named him as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Science and Technology in 1962. President Johnson promoted him to Acting Under Secretary last February. Highly regarded in university circles-Virginia and Pittsburgh were also considering...
...proven leadership capabilities, the Urban League will begin this summer to seed ten "Veterans Affairs Offices" into its 81 nationwide centers. Funded at $175,000, the VAO program will help Negroes use their G.I. benefits ($150 a month for education), place them in a "skill bank," and offer on-the-job training where it is needed...
...brought up in a prosperous, nonmusical Amsterdam family, "drifted" into music as a violin student at nine, admits that most of his conducting has been learned in on-the-job training. Sometimes painfully self-deprecating ("Of course you have ups and downs, but I am a conductor who has too many downs"), he feels he got the Concertgebouw post at his age only as "a credit card for the future...