Word: placement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moran Weston, rector of St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Harlem, "there are a lot of natural leaders out on those streets. Somebody just needs to help them." Weston's church, for one, is helping by offering basketball and music, field trips and job placement services to 500 children a day. Some 150 social services are also at work in Harlem, spending as much as $10 million a year...
...bone of American democracy. By the 1950's this concern with the social purpose of education had decreased, and emphasis had shifted to developing the ability to think. During this "decade of intellect," the gifted child received much attention, and was the beneficiary of such innovations as the Advanced Placement Program...
More Saving. The billion-dollar figures are being translated into millions of everyday, personal decisions to spend. In San Francisco, the Western Girl temporary-employee-placement firm asked its young women how they were handling their plumper paychecks, reported that "the majority are putting it toward better living, new clothes, things like that." Travel agents say that the tax cut is largely responsible for the upsurge in their go-now, pay-later installment business. "This means taking my family to Scotland instead of Massachusetts this summer," beamed a Columbia Broadcasting vice president. Compared with the same month of last year...
...Right Time. Quite a few companies have asked colleges and Negro organizations to help them find Negro management trainees. In some cases this is a calculated gesture, a sort of bend-over-backward bow that has been forced by social and political pressures. Says New York University Associate Placement Director Andre Beaumont...
...Tiger's number four man is an advanced placement sophomore named Ham Magill. Last spring, when Magill was playing at Choate, Clive Kileff, then Harvard's top freshman, lost to him 6-0, 6-0. If they meet again today in the fourth match, as seems likely, Kileff would have to overcome a huge mental block to win. It's not impossible, but unlikely...