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...bankers to lend him huge sums ("We've just never been turned down when we wanted to borrow," he says), and, most importantly, by luring a small army of dedicated business school graduates to Idaho. Fourteen Harvard men have followed Hansberger westward, including five this year; one recent recruit is Charles Tillinghast III, son of the president of Trans World Airlines. Working hard, the young men have revitalized the company with selling flair and bright ideas, have cracked their way into markets once considered unattainable...
...Sargent Shriver, Director of the Peace Corps, will visit the Boston area in February to recruit applicants for the regular program and participants in the special project, Michael Shinagel, associate director of the Office for Graduate and Career Plans, disclosed last night. Shinagel speculated that Shriver "may make a major policy speech at Harvard...
...enlisted men or officers can be induced to make the military their career. And the problem is bound to grow worse as all services become more technically specialized. Only highly trained and competent men can operate today's military machine, and the military is finding it more difficult to recruit such men and to keep those it has. An Army major with 15 years experience who oversees a research laboratory receives about the same pay as a fresh out of grad school research scientist employed by private industry. An Air Force jet engine mechanic with four years' service earns three...
...Master of Arts in Teaching Program that Sizer directs has made special efforts to recruit good students from Eastern liberal arts colleges with no previous training in education. But Sizer pointed out that The Education of American Teacrers plays down the importance of such "fifth year" programs, and "is actually concerned with the big universities [which give undergraduate training in education]; Indiana, for example, trains more teachers in a year than all the M.A.T. programs in the country." Conant believes that a proper four-year bachelor of arts program--complete with courses in education and practice teaching--should be sufficient...
...junior at El Segundo High School, hardly let him out of his sight for two years. Northwestern's Myers got VIP tours of all but three Big Ten campuses, plus Miami and the University of Florida. Midshipman Roger Staubach is a prize product of perhaps the most extensive recruiting service in college football. "We don't dodge it," says Rip Miller, Navy's assistant athletic director. "We recruit like...