Word: size
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that perfect job with the perfect company. Yet for a small group of seniors, plans for the immediate future are based not on a personnel man's questions but on their own violent demonstrations. They are the college-football players who hope that they have shown enough size, speed, skill and strength to be selected by professional football scouts to play...
...Kwalick is heralded by one scout as "probably the finest tight end since Mike Ditka came out of Pittsburgh." He can go deep for a pass, and once he has the ball "turns upfield and just knocks somebody over. He'll not out-nifty anybody, but with his size he bowls over the de fense like duckpins." Some scouts say Kwalick will have to learn a bit more about blocking to become a real pro star. Sellers, the top college receiver this season, with 86 receptions, is a swift, shifty end already running the kind of pass patterns...
...Shinners, however, this need not be true. He is a stick-out at guard, with "great maneuverability, good lateral movement and the speed to pull out and lead sweeps. He's a winner-period." Mayes is a converted tight end with "excellent balance, quick feet and grand size." He is still growing, and the scouts are convinced that his best football is still ahead...
...profits (last year it earned $651 million after taxes on revenues of $5.3 billion) that it could trim prices and still do well. But IBM knows only too well that a general computer price cut might drive some smaller competitors to the wall. IBM is also sensitive about its size, and about the fact that the Justice Department has long had it under examination. Beginning in January, Tom Watson's new general counsel and vice president will be Nicholas Katzenbach, former U.S. Attorney General. Another vice president is Burke Marshall, former U.S. Assistant Attorney General...
...President's Reports for '61-62 to '65-65 show the basic fees have risen faster than the average stipend size and thus the proportion of the bill paid by scholarships has gone down, not up. since then fees have risen 25 per cent and total aid, including loans, rose 84 per cent, but the trends are about the same...