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...this vein, Samuels and Schlesinger request that the Placement Office attempt to get more summer employment for first-year students. But at the same time, they demand the exclusion from Placement Office facilities of any law firm that discriminate in its hiring...
...clerks on the floor of the American Stock Exchange. John Fanning of Manhattan's Fanning Personnel Agency says that the shortage of secretaries "is the tightest we've ever seen"; a competent young secretary in New York can get $110 a week. Like many training and placement agencies, the Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School offers refresher courses for older graduates who have been busy raising children, but now want to get back to work...
...really knows why the number of students qualified for advanced standing declined this year. It might be just chance. To qualify for advanced standing, a student must get a certain score on at least three Advanced Placement Tests. But these tests, which are administered by the College Entrance Examination Board, are not given until May, a month after Harvard has sent out its acceptances. So Harvard, which has no way of knowing a student's Advanced Placement status, may just have accepted a class with a very small number of people who happened to do well on the AP tests...
Lindsay's third attack on the status quo focused on improving the level of city services in ghetto areas. The Mayor's creative, publicity-minded Parks Commissioner Thomas Hoving hired some teen-age leaders from Bedford Stuyvesant and Harlem to advise him on the design and placement of parks in their neighborhoods; he imported swimming pools into ghetto parks, and he provided free bus service for groups to any park in the city. Welfare Commissioner Nathan Ginsberg began a more difficult battle against his 18,000-man bureaucracy. He cut out the infamous "midnight raids" on welfare clients which were...
...worse than the admissions crush at the Ivies or Oxbridge, so it seems, is the placement struggle currently taking place in that self-styled educational paradise, the Soviet Union. Although Russia claims to spare no rubles when it comes to schooling, its universities and technical institutes are sadly inadequate to meet the national demand...