Word: recruiting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge United Fund has been able to recruit only half of the 1200 volunteers necessary for the 1961 effort, according to Herman A. Siegel, Administration Chairman. "Perhaps if the people of Cambridge cannot handle the job, Harvard can," said Siegel, adding, however, that at least 600 local citizens have offered their services...
...midst of the study, in 1953, Jones got a call from a onetime Stanford classmate, Bill Ballhouse, then Northrop's deputy chief engineer (and now its executive vice president). Ballhouse wanted to recruit him for Northrop. "I don't want to be a key on somebody's typewriter," Jones answered. "I want to work on basic problems." Ballhouse replied that Northrop had a very basic problem-it was on the road to ruin. "You know," Jones replied, "this is beginning to sound very interesting." Seven months later, against the advice of most of his friends...
Colleges may also get together to fill one specific need. An example is the recently organized Midwest College Council, with twelve members including some drawn from both the Associated Colleges of the Midwest and the Great Lakes Association. Because they have more than enough Midwest applicants, they hope to recruit Eastern youngsters. As Ripon's President Fred O. Pinkham puts it: "The mists rising from the Hudson River seem to obscure the view of the rich educational experiences awaiting students on the other side...
Chaplain Breitfeller says that everyone at Lorton worked on the project in one way or another from October 1956 to last week's dedication. His first recruit was one Farmer C. Thomas, doing a 17-year stretch for forging $100 bills, who had once taken a mail-order course in architectural engineering. When the priest asked him to design the chapel, Thomas, an atheist, protested that he had never been in a church in his life. Under Father Breitfeller's influence and instruction, he became a Catholic...
Next morning, after the cremation, Foster's ashes were ceremonially borne to Red Square by a bevy of Communism's best, including Soviet Cosmonaut Titov. The eulogists included "La Pasionaria" of the Spanish Civil War-Dolores Ibarruri, who recalled how Foster had helped recruit the American Abraham Lincoln Brigade for the Republican army. Red China's Ambassador Liu Hsiao called Foster "the leader of the American working class," adding that "he had worked tirelessly to promote friendship between the peoples of China and the U.S.A...