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...master foreign languages"). Finally, she graduated from Florida's University of Miami, where the water-skiing was great and the social life superb. After teaching seventh grade for a while in Mobile, Ala., and hating it, Martha came home and went to work at the Pine Bluff Arsenal as receptionist to the commanding general, who took her along with him to Washington when he was transferred in 1945. Martha says she knew then that the move would change her life...
...just another Friday morning in the handsome executive offices of a large East Chicago aluminum company. Sharon, the receptionist, glanced up from her switchboard to see "a nice-looking man, about 35, dressed in slacks, a lightweight jacket and sports shirt." He was carrying a bucket-but then, as Sharon explained, "people come in all the time with samples to analyze...
...corporation by the whiteness of it," he says. "In the basement, it might be all black; on the first floor, it's sort of polka dot. But as you go up, it gets whiter, and soon you get near the top, and except for that guard or receptionist out front you don't see many blacks." Certainly the union leaders have a point when they complain that integration is being forced on them while business has been slow to integrate its of fice staffs and executive ranks. A recent survey of 441 of the largest U.S. corporations...
They quickly occupied the adjoining reception area and the office of James R. Killian Jr., the chairman of the governing M.I.T. Corporation, Both Johnson and killian were out of town. Two secretaries and a receptionist left the offices voluntarily. Johnson returned in time to preside over the faculty meeting, which began...
Their struggles set these students apart from middle-class student radicals, and they know it. A few, as might be expected, express contempt for college revolutionaries. Olga Mike, 20, who has worked as a domestic and a receptionist while attending N.Y.U., speaks bitterly of "Kids with nothing to do-they don't even go to classes, but they take over a building and sit in it drinking wine." Most of the working-class students share the radicals' opposition to the Viet Nam war and the draft. Many even grant that campus rebels have done some good by awakening...