Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...critics of Johnson Administration policy in the Dominican Republic will visit Harvard this weekend to report on a recent trip to Santo Domingo and to recruit unofficial observers for the island's June 1 elections...
That is likely never to happen. Although financial contributions to Radcliffe increase each year, it will be a long time before the college, with its present set of financial priorities, will be able to recruit students from the country's poor neighborhoods, from urban slums and small farms...
Meantime, Yemen's Royalist forces are just as determined. They recruit retired officers from France, Belgium, Britain, Pakistan, Iran and Jordan, receive arms and financial help from Saudi Arabia, Britain and Iran. Even the tiny Persian Gulf sheikdoms are unstinting. Recently, a Royalist Yemen emissary visited Sheik Shakhbut, ruler of Abu Dhabi on the Persian Gulf, and asked for a contribution of 5,000 pounds sterling. He walked away with ?100,000. "You are all astonished?" the sheik shrugged to his advisers. "Do you know how many cases of ammunition ?100,000 will buy, and how long they...
...Lockheed has an immediate need for 2,000 workers. Douglas Aircraft Co. has been luring engineers with a $100,000 savings plan that is above and beyond normal retirement benefits. In Cincinnati, General Electric is offering present workers bonuses of up to $200 for every new employee they successfully recruit. Monsanto has started running help-wanted ads on TV in Dayton. Ford's Lincoln-Mercury assembly plant in St. Louis is using spot radio commercials, has set up portable employment offices at several shopping centers...
Imported Mountaineers. To staff its mills in Chicago and Gary, where the labor market is at its tightest, U.S. Steel announced last week that it would try to recruit 1,000 workers in Pittsburgh. According to San Francisco's Ampex, the necessity of looking farther afield for technicians has increased its recruiting costs from $3,000 to nearly...