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...Rising Complaints. Besieged from many sources on the type of nominees he should select to fill two vacancies on the Supreme Court-including persistent pressure to name a woman -Nixon quietly pursued his own course. He asked the American Bar Association to give its opinion of the fitness of Virginia Representative Richard H. Poff, despite rising complaints from civil rights groups and the threat of another Senate nomination fight by Democratic Senator Birch Bayh, who led the successful opposition to Nominees Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell. But just as the A.B.A. was about to make its private recommendation...
...recruitment sources for academic positions are professional meetings and conferences. Valuable employment information and contacts are exchanged at these meetings. This type of recruiting tends to be covertly discriminatory, because most of the information regarding employment possibilities is not available to persons who are not a part of this "select circle...
Since women are not in positions of faculty chairmen and high-ranking administrators, the "select circle" method of recruiting tends to perpetuate the present discriminatory staffing pattern. Unsolicited applications for faculty employment receive very little consideration or attention. In some cases they are filed away without comment. The University may be overlooking many well-qualified male and female applicants by this practice. However, this practice works mostly against female applicants as their qualifications may not come to the attention of the hiring authorities through any other method...
There are signs that many employees feel a company ought to put its money where its image is. Last week, in response to a year of quiet urging by employee groups, Xerox Corp. announced that each year it will select 20 or more of its 38,000 U.S. employees for a year of "social service leave"-at full pay-to do anything they want that might contribute to a better society. The restrictions: the employee must have worked for Xerox at least three years, and the activity that he chooses must be legal, nonpolitical and sponsored by an existing nonprofit...
South Viet Nam's presidential campaign overshadowed another important election this week. Vietnamese voters went to the polls to select from among 1,297 candidates the 159 who will sit in the House of Representatives. Patterned after the U.S. House, Viet Nam's lower chamber originates the nation's legislation and, with a two-thirds majority, could override a presidential veto...