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...Zorza and Hengen are also planning a general canvassing for Senator Charles E. Goodell's (R.N.Y.) S-3000 Resolution, which calls for complete withdrawal from Vietnam by Dec. 1, 1970. In addition, they hope to recruit workers for peace candidates and to begin a repeal-the-draft campaign...
...more blatant example of the gap between talk and action came in Mississippi. After C. E. Jones, the personel director for Mississippi Power and Light, reported that his company was trying hard to recruit graduates of black colleges, several blacks at local schools confirmed his story. But there was a catch: the only jobs the blacks were offered-after graduating with degrees in economics or business-were the same typist jobs that white high school girls filled. Coupled with the absence of any signs of progress, these lapses score heavily against the company...
Many, if not most, Cambridge policemen are Cambridge residents, and are content with the opportunities provided by the department. They are reluctant to leave the department, and few in fact do. As we dwelled on this point, I suddenly realized that Cochran was trying to recruit me. "Have you ever considered police work?" he asked, half jokingly, but three-quarters seriously. He had hit on an interesting, and vital point. "Can you imagine the impact if, instead of going into the Peace Corps or VISTA, Harvard graduates put in two years in a patrol car. Or they could circumvent civil...
...proposed all-volunteer army-about whose virtues Congress is split-he has scarcely said a word, suggesting that a matter so important should be the decision of the President. The Administration has taken soundings, and it is confident that Capitol Hill is willing to accept the new recruit...
...Office, with disastrous effects upon efficiency, because few Americans will accept jobs that require work at night or on weekends. Some restaurateurs are hiring the mentally retarded because they are the only people willing to try?and even take some pride in?mopping floors and washing dishes. Hospitals often recruit the physically handicapped for service jobs ?handling bedpans, doing kitchen and laundry work?that no one else will stick with...