Word: recruitable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sputnik days, the case of Private Ernest Shult, 24, would probably have been laughed off as a bit of routine Army bungling. Gangling, brown-haired Shult, assistant to a professor at Southern Illinois University, seemed to be just one more recruit when he reported to Fort
...Special Assistant's first task will be to recruit a "very strong" scientific advisory group which has been described as an "essential part" of Eisenhower's revamping of the nation's scientific defense setup...
...response to the appeal, the PBH General Hospitals Committee will attempt to recruit "about 100" students to work round the clock in five hour shifts. The Committee hopes to put about four or five volunteers on each shift. The present members of the PBH Hospitals Committee will form the core of the group, but more students and wives of faculty members will be needed to fill the required quota...
...just wants a roof over his head for four years," says Oberlin's President William E. Stevenson. Oberlin gets 75% of its students from outside Ohio, has been called the best coed college in the nation. Each spring, talent scouts from top graduate schools show up to recruit leading seniors. Says Stevenson: "If Oberlin recommends them, they get off to a fine start." Still, Oberlin's high standards have one built-in drawback: the students sometimes become smugly complacent about their intellectual superiority. Cracks one Ohio Wesleyan vice president: "Oberlin gets the valedictorians. I'll settle...
Reaching outside politics, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker last week picked an unexpected recruit as Canada's new Secretary of State for External Affairs. His choice: Sidney Earle Smith, 60, president of the University of Toronto. A portly, affable man with silvering hair, a booming conversational voice and a politician's knack for remembering names, Dr. Smith had never held a political office, but he is better known across Canada than many of his Cabinet colleagues...