Word: recruiting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gila River Valley, and the big Boeing 707 jetliner was just 16 minutes out of El Paso on a routine Continental Airlines run from Los Angeles to Houston. In the darkened cabin, most of the passengers dozed in their seats. "I was about half asleep," recalls Air Force Recruit Robert Byington, "when I saw one of the stewardesses being pushed up the aisle by a young guy about 17." Byington did not see the revolver pressed against the girl. "She didn't look like she was scared, and I thought this fellow was just fooling around...
...Senate committee, reporting last January on the industry's woes, coldly concluded that for years railroad men had 1) slighted basic economic and market research; 2) rarely bothered to recruit bright youngsters on the campuses; 3) failed to develop adequate systems for determining the costs of their services. Added the report: "In most American businesses, any procedure which is 10 to 25 years old is automatically regarded with suspicion by management. In the railroad industry, if a practice is 50 to 75 years old it is 'proved by time...
...white man forever, and to dominate the black leadership when the nation finally wins independence. Already a K.L.F.A. plot to kill Ronald Ngala, moderate leader of a prominent African political party, has been unearthed and nipped in the bud. By all reports, the new movement hoped to recruit Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta as its leader once he is permitted to re-enter politics. So far, the movement is too small to force its will on the rising black politicians, but British authorities fear real trouble if the Russians and Chinese, who now have big diplomatic missions in neighboring Somalia, begin...
...home. After Wil helm hit Cincinnati's Frank Robinson with a pitch. Clemente lined a sharp single to right, and Willie Mays jogged across the plate. It was the third straight All-Star victory for the National League -and a good reason for the American League to recruit more Negro talent...
...Pete Hart was my first recruit," Birge says today with pride. "And there are some good ones coming up. You watch the next two or three years...