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...Wednesday evening, the telephone company has connected 93 telephones, according to Message Center receptionist Katherine Singer, Twenty-eight of these phones are for proctors, and students use the remaining...

Author: By Lawrence K. Bakst, | Title: Despite a 78-Day Strike, Students Get Their Phones | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

People in very low levels of company hierarchy play a large role in the colored man's job-hunt. It is the gamekeeper, the receptionist, the personnel clerk, and the secretary, who act as a filter system and turn the immigrant applicant away...

Author: By Kerry Gruson, | Title: Britain's Race Problem: Quick Rewrite of an American Tradition | 11/1/1967 | See Source »

...next quite a while after 1 p.m., I sat in a deep plastic leather chair in the receptionist's office, thinking how this sacred room or rock and roll so closely resembled the 11th floor of William James. Suddenly, in walked three of the Doors followed by two men who obviously were not. They hurried past and entered a room and had a meeting for 30 or 40 seconds. Only one sound came out of the room. That was Jon saying, "Listen, if you're going to put us in a battle of the bands, it'll only be with...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Alexander, | Title: Psychedelic Revolution in Rock 'n' Roll: Confessions of Four Doors Who Made It | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

...call up a friend there who happens to be a manager, the dulcet voice receptionist announces "I'll ring Mr.--'s line for you." Another sweet female voice answers, "Mr.--'s office." By this time you've stopped calling your friend by his first name and starting calling him "Mister...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HSA: Where Free Enterprise Flowers | 9/25/1967 | See Source »

...joined the league as executive director in 1961, the organization has made a particular effort to find jobs that have never before been open to Negroes or have what the league calls a symbolic "role model" significance. Secretarial positions, for example, are particularly coveted, because a Negro secretary or receptionist, sitting outside the boss's office, tells everyone in a company-more effectively than a dozen interoffice memos-that its policy is to hire Negroes. "If you've got them up on the executive floor," notes Young succinctly, "there is no question." More than 300 Negro girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: The Other 97% | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

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