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Alexander arrived at the 19%-23% figure not by tallying the percentage of blacks and Puerto Ricans in Cambridge (19.5%) but by counting the number of nonwhites available for jobs in the 20-odd crafts covered by the contracts. Moreover, if the builder is unable to recruit sufficient numbers, Harvard has the right to supply the minority workers...
...predicts that in the next decade "the most creative and healthiest will continue to depart in mounting numbers, leaving their conservative colleagues with the balance of power" in the church. He predicts that this will be "an illusory victory for the traditionalists" since they will not be able to recruit the kind of successors they want. "At this stage, which will be reached before 1975 in many places, a basic reworking of the religious life will finally be seen as necessary to the mission of the church...
Peace Corps advertising is part of a public service program coordinated by the Advertising Council Inc., to which agencies volunteer their services and media donate space and time. It is usually left to the council to recruit agencies for accounts it considers "major." When Peace Corps officials, on their own, dropped Y. & R. for Keye, Donna & Pearlstein, council members observed that the new agency was too small for an account that had been given $25 million worth of media placements. The council thereupon shrank Keye, Donna & Pearlstein's new plum by reducing Peace Corps advertising from "major" to "bulletin...
...Grandes Ecoles continue to train their students in a severely traditional mode. Because their graduates hold a virtual monopoly on top government jobs. Crozier points out that it is "absolutely impossible to recruit any new specialists." In the future recruitment must come from a much broader spectrum of the populations...
Although less than 10 per cent of the New York Police are black or Puerto Rican, Fink said, "efforts are being made" to recruit more minority policemen. He cited new training programs and the use of Spanish-speaking recruiters...