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...that blacks have been moving into skilled and managerial jobs. Besides a generally fast-expanding economy in the past decade, there have been other contributing factors: pressure from the Federal Government to end discrimination in the marketplace; a more enlightened attitude on the part of business leaders, who actively recruit blacks; and of course the pertinacity of blacks themselves who recognize their opportunities and seize them. Surveying the job market from the vantage point of more than 30 years as publisher of Ebony, John H. Johnson marvels at the change. When he first started publishing, he saw only white faces...
...helped pull the hoses into line. "It's on-the-job training," said a proud but anxious Ali from a safe distance. As for Steve, he proved something of a distraction. One smoke-choked and begrimed L.A.F.D. member did a double take when he saw the new recruit. "My wife will never believe this," he said...
There are not that many engineers to hire-enrollment in engineering schools has dropped 20% in the past three years-and companies are competing for the best as fervently as the colleges recruit top athletes. Gary Budd, a senior in industrial engineering at Georgia Tech, was invited to visit seven different companies' plants. He traveled with his wife, wined, dined and lodged lavishly-all at the companies' expense. Says Michigan State University Senior Keith Miller: "Even if you have only a 2-point average in chemical engineering [the equivalent of a C], you are supposed to be able...
During a break the students and instructors mingle. "How are you going to change something that has been going on for so many years?" asks a recruit. "Maybe the street just crumbles you," says another. Detective Lynn Cutler replies: "When you help people day in and day out and don't get the thanks you think you deserve, it's rough. I know that. But your job is to be a professional. We didn't say it was easy...
...Soldiers Field. He almost tripped over a rock near the now-deflated bubble, and, as he cursed what seemed so out of place on a playing field, he found that the stone was a dedication marker commemorating a former Harvard great who seemed totally insignificant to the high school recruit at that moment. "One thing about this place," he said. "Every god damn thing has some guy's name scratched on it somewhere...