Word: supervisor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When a company has one job opening, says Lloyd Luoma, a Lockheed employment supervisor, "a little advertising and luck will fill it. But with a hundred openings at once, you have a problem." Many U.S. employers have such headaches, and are racking their corporate brains to find ways of meeting the increasingly severe shortage of skilled workers...
...Lateral Arabesque, which is used by many managers in place of firing a misplaced employee. If an office supervisor fumbles frequently, he is made "coordinator of interdepartmental communications, supervising the filing of second copies of interoffice memos." This is similar...
...business as the redoubtable Jeane Dixon and British Seer Maurice Woodruff, who does his predicting on a syndicated TV show hosted by Robert Q. Lewis. To lend a little magic to public entertainments, Los Angeles enjoys the services of an official County Witch?a title conferred by the County Supervisor on Mrs. Louise Huebner, a thirtyish "third-generation astrologer and sixth-generation witch." Sorceress Huebner, who affects clinging outfits of silver for her increasingly frequent broadcasts and public appearances, made her official debut last July at a folk festival in the Hollywood Bowl, at which everyone was supplied with...
...American Forensic Association, the supervisor of national debating, is now considering a measure which would prohibit universities from operating profit-making tournaments. If the measure passes it will cut the Harvard Council's main source of income...
...Tone. When Papert, Koenig, Lois Inc., a Manhattan ad agency, first got the assignment to handle Pristeen, a group of male copywriters went to work, but their efforts did not quite capture the right girl-to-girl tone. The agency then turned to Peggy Prag, a late-thirtyish creative supervisor who spent six months devising the current approach. Though she found that she could "discuss the vaginal area just like automobiles or detergents" in agency conferences, her own copy clung to euphemisms, at least at first. Market research, including a nationwide survey of 1,200 women, showed that customers care...