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...student, couldn't find a berth in any major law firm. Except for the lowliest jobs, Wall Street, insurance and banking were also closed to those of Mediterranean or Slavic descent. A handful of legal and financial establishments were the preserves of high-caste German Jews, seldom hospitable to Polish and Russian Jews. The Postal Service was more ) egalitarian. The merit system allowed a Baratz to rise in rank, slowly. But my father felt that he lived in confinement -- a condition from which he would abet his only son's escape by providing cover...
...Rollins' actions in a column that ran in The New York Times a few days after the initial rumblings. He harkened back to his days in the Nixon campaign, fighting against the infectious popularity of John F. Kennedy '40. His job was "to direct payments to black, Jewish, Irish, Polish and other newspapers and radio stations...to encourage the gazettes and stations toward editorial balance." What editorial balance is this? A careful weighing of opinions that ends in ambiguity, or a vile attempt to keep journalists from taking a side, making an endorsement...
...steelworks was the life-force of Eisenhuttenstadt, a utopian socialist city of 50,000 southeast of Berlin and the pride of the German Democratic Republic. Today the complex of six factories is a hulk dominated by a single operating blast furnace. It glows over an industrial wasteland near the Polish border where thousands have lost their jobs. Since unification, Eko Stahl has cut 85% of its eastern German work force as it closed or restructured its inefficient and overstaffed - plants. The number at Eisenhuttenstadt has shrunk from 12,000 to 3,500, and the remaining workers are threatened with layoffs...
...started in the small town of Hastings, Pa, about 110 miles east of Pittsburgh. There, Restic was one of 10 children born to Louis Restic, a Ukrainian-born coalminer, and his Polish wife. He attended a one-room red schoolhouse in the city where all eight grades were taught by a Mrs. Mary Kline, a woman crippled by polio. Every day for all of Restic's eight years at the school, she would painstakingly write lessons on the board with her crippled right...
...group is also planning to work with the Office of Career Services to set up a professional workshop committee to help students polish their interviewing skills and help with resume writing...