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...trying most to recruit a legion of Columbia football devotees is head coach Bill Campbell, who pitched camp at 116th Street and Broadway after a stint as an assistant coach...
...most hotly debated issue at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences last year was the question of minority recruitment and admissions. Ever since affirmative action became a widely acknowledged issue, the GSAS has been trying to design policies to recruit, admit and keep minority Ph.D. candidates...
...defensive, Mischa has stepped up "Lothario" operations, whereby handsome agents lure lonely Bonn government secretaries into bed and, ultimately, into East German service. He also takes advantage of West German unemployment by trying to recruit jobless people who might one day become useful sources. Thousands of unemployed computer technicians, data analysts, engineers and journalists have been offered jobs in innocuous-sounding "research" firms that turned out to be East German intelligence-gathering fronts. Many of the job seekers patriotically report the ploy. In a classic counterintelligence maneuver, some of Mischa's supposed recruits may have been "turned" into double...
Most important was a call the President planned to issue this week for amendments to the National Labor Relations Act that would make it easier for unions to organize and recruit new members. Labor chiefs have long complained that employers have taken advantage of various quirks in the labor law to hamper union organizing. This is one reason, they claim, why total union membership (now 20.1 million) has shriveled from almost a third of the U.S. work force in 1955, when the AFL-CIO was formed, to less than a quarter today...
Like Monopoly. As disaffected investors tell it, Holzer used her Hair-built Broadway fame to recruit backers for a wide variety of foreign import, commodity and real estate deals. She started out with a small group of associates, friends from the Spanish community and Broadway chums, to whom she would casually murmur, say, something about how she had an opportunity to make a bundle on Japanese automobiles imported to Indonesia. At first the results were impressive. One woman gave her $5,000 and made a $12,260 profit within a year. She then got some friends...