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Fired from his job as a salesman for an electronics company, Joe Sherman could not find another. At 54, his age counted against him. His real education was skimpy. So Sherman put a new and imaginary personality on paper. He subtracted 15 years from his age, added a cum laude degree from the University of Pittsburgh, work on a Ph.D. at the University of Florida and a broad array of engineering experience. Then he mailed his resume to a wide range of electronics firms all over the country...
Aerospace and electronics companies are desperate for skilled technicians, and soon Joe Sherman was flooded with responses from personnel managers. In accordance with now-current practice in this competitive field, all were eager to pay his expenses if he would just appear for a personal interview. Joe judiciously accepted selected offers, pocketed the money for his air fare, and took off cross-country from his Pasadena, Calif., home in his battered automobile...
...Sherman never accepted a job, and he never intended to. But in a hectic two years, he collected some $15,000 from 40 companies, among them Brown Engineering of Huntsville, Ala., Laboratory for Electronics in Boston and Defense Electronics of Rockville, Md. Foresightedly he asked that the firms he talked with abide by "the code of the companies" and contact none of his "previous employers" until interviews were complete. Using alias after alias, he was not once asked for identification...
Such firms as Sperry Gyroscope Co. and Raytheon Co. actually offered jobs. So confident did Sherman become that he threatened to sue one firm that was tardy with his expense payment...
Nunn, who successfully managed the 1956 Kentucky campaigns for Dwight Eisenhower and Republican Senators John Sherman Cooper and Thruston Morton, is a respected politician whose denial of this groin-type tactic seems worthy of belief. But there is no question that Nunn is using the civil rights issue for all it is worth, and that may be plenty in border state Kentucky. He was handed a readymade platform when Governor Bert Combs issued an executive order last June banning discrimination in all business establishments licensed by the state. Combs is not allowed to succeed himself, and Breathitt is his hand...