Word: recruiting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaders of the new party are Kurt Bachmann, a 59-year-old Cologne journalist, and Kurt Erlebach, 46, who is also a newspaperman. Their immediate aim is to recruit 5,000 members by year's end, but most of them will probably come from the ranks of the old outlawed organization. Says Erlebach: "You don't expect us to create a Communist party from Salvation Army members, do you?" The appearance of the new Communist party poses an interlocking dilemma for the government of Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger. It can hardly suppress the National Democrats without also taking legal...
Despite the glaring lack of uniform standards across the country, most police recruits fit Dr. Rhead's prescription, as far as it goes. In Eastern and Midwestern cities, the typical recruit is a Roman Catholic of blue-collar background and Irish, Polish or perhaps Italian ancestry. Often, says Chicago Psychologist Arnold Abrams, he has been "exposed to an autocratic environment." Most recruits are eldest sons; most tend to be nervous around authority. In Detroit, says former Police...
Others worry that the rapid growth of house courses is putting pressure on every house to come up with a full roster like Winthrop's, that the pressure may lead some Masters to recruit volunteers, and in the long run, might make willingness to teach house courses a criterion for hiring resident tutors...
...responses raise any doubts about him, the candidate must go before a board of three psychiatrists. About 40% of the applicants each year are rejected because of either the psychological tests or a past record of instability turned up in a background check. At the police academy, the new recruit takes the California Test of Mental Maturity, the Watson-Glaser Judgmental Test, a Rorschach inkblot test, a picture-memory test and the Thematic Apperception Test. At any time during his training or six-month probationary period, a recruit's superior may order him to appear before the psychiatric board...
Invasion of Privacy. Many police chiefs believe that such tests are an invasion of an applicant's privacy. Small towns claim that they are too expensive (cost of testing and interviewing a single recruit in Portland, Ore.: $100). And even New York cops normally take no personality tests. Instead, a team of 74 investigators prepares personal histories of up to 40 pages on each candidate after weeks of interviews with people who know...