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...other responsibilities included serving as vice-chairman of the State Department's Board of Foreign Scholarships from 1956 to 1969 president of the New England Conference of Graduate Education from 1947 to 1958; and a trustee of Barnard College the Buckingham School in Cambridge and the Alice Freeman Palmer Institute in Sedalian...
Nebraska employed the Rev. Robert Palmer, a Presbyterian minister, to say an opening prayer at its state assembly sessions from 1965 to 1981. Four years ago, Ernest Chambers, a member of the state's unicameral legislature, went to court, arguing that the practice had the effect of establishing a state religion...
...half years ago, the 325 employees who manufactured paper egg cartons at a Diamond International plant in Palmer, Mass., faced a cloudy future. Styrofoam containers were creating stiff competition, the recession was biting into profits, and with the American economy worsening, workers were suffering a bad case of unemployment jitters. Recalls Daniel Boyle, personnel director of the Diamond plant: "Relations between labor and management were strained at best...
...Palmer plant's formula for success is disarmingly simple. Employees are allocated points in recognition of above-average performance. Any employee who works a full year without having an industrial accident is awarded 20 points; 100% attendance is worth 25 points. Every year, on the anniversary of the program's Feb. 2, 1981, launching date, points are totted up, and a record is sent to the individual's home. Upon reaching 100 points, the worker gets a light blue nylon jacket emblazoned with the company logo and a patch signifying membership in the 100 Club. Every...
Other establishments dedicated to the fine art of Java swilling include Passim, tucked away on Palmer St. behind the Coop, Grendel's Don in the evening, and La Ruche, a sterilized version of the once-Euro Prioshka...