Word: recruiting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thought he saw a way to do better still. Hearing that his University of Illinois classmate, Charles Luckman, had been fired from his $300,000-a-year job as president of the U.S. branch of Lever Bros., Pereira could not resist the chance to recruit an old pal. Off went a letter to Chuck, accompanied by a package containing the plans Luckman had made as his final school project?for a monastery. "For 20 years I've had my eye on this guy," wrote Pereira to Luckman. "That's why I've saved this. I think he's mature enough...
...found that some funds deliberately seek salesmen with little or no savvy in the securities business, recruit a large number in the armed forces to sell to buddies or subordinates, and have their salesmen play to the "fear, pride and patriotism" of prospective buyers. One brokerage firm that also specializes in selling training materials for fund salesmen-Kalb, Voorhis & Co.-advises them to use the "accidentally-on-purpose" technique: when filling out a fund contract, write in an astronomically high monthly investment-perhaps $250-to start the buyer "thinking...
Champagne in Streams. One major service Clemens performed for the Russians was to recruit a former SS colleague, Heinz Felfe. Cool and articulate, Defendant Felfe, 45, told the judges that he too was an ardent Nazi, had worked his way up into Heinrich Himmler's state security bureau. He bragged of his wartime successes, which he claimed included getting first reports on Teheran and Yalta from a confidant of Allen Dulles. After war's end he was classified by a German denazification board as unbelastet (not incriminated). This astonishing fact was acknowledged by Presiding Judge Kurt Weber with...
...eavesdropping, shooting movies and taking still pictures They quickly identified Ivan the Driver as Gennadi G. Sevastyanov, 33-a Russian "diplomat" carried on the rolls of the Soviet embassy as a "cultural attaché." He was actually a member of KGB-the Soviet secret police, trying to recruit a spy. "Which side are you on-ours or the Americans?" he asked Vanya. "You could better your position in life if you would cooperate." He quizzed Vanya about his intelligence work, told him candidly: "We want operational data, not classified material. We want to penetrate your office." Brother Volodya, an employee...
Congratulations on your clarion call [June 7] to American business corporations! Only a small fraction of the nation's business corporations are contributing to higher education. Let's hope that the unconvinced firms see the light before it's too late-before they try to recruit the college graduate who isn't there...