Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because of the four-year student turnover, candidates must recruit the Harvard voter for every election. Sullivan's impressive vote total proves the campaigning is worth it, though. Two years from now, halls and entryways should be littered with literature and bustling with candidates, courting student voters for the first time ever. The increase in campaigning will also make the Harvard voter more sophisticated; chances are no one will be able to engineer a win the size of Sullivan's in future elections. "Politicians will have to start paying attention to the demands of students." David Sullivan said...
Donovan's love of ingenuity was infectious. William Duff, a retired book publisher who was sent to Algiers to recruit agents for spying in France, recalls one example: "We had a chap in Cairo who designed a land mine that looked remarkably like a camel turd. He put it in the diplomatic pouch and sent it to London. I'm not sure they knew quite what to make of it." Thibaut de Saint Phalle, now a director of the Export-Import Bank, discovered that Chinese pirates were very adept at blowing up Japanese ships, and he went...
Drafts said he believes "universities have a responsibility to recruit disabled students because universities initiated the special educational programs which enabled handicapped students to get to the point where they can go to college...
...roommates' sloppy ways. Otherwise life is cheerful, until the Frey character meets another young woman (Nicole Jamet) and sets about turning the maison a trois into a maison a quatre. Needless to say he doesn't bother to explain the rules and arrangements to the new recruit, and much unhappiness results from this lack of forthright communication. Eventually, because this is supposed to be a comedy, things are set to order (the new girl stays), and everyone settles down to a mutual misunderstanding...
...squad is working on its male-female ratio, too. It managed to recruit four men with gymnastic abilities. David J. T. Vanderburgh '80-3, a cheerleader, says he joined because cheering is "an outlet for gymnastics," and it appealed to his "sense of whimsey." Anyway, he adds, "I get a good view of the football team...