Word: supervisoral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West Coast and organize a national apparatus to work for the release of black and poor people now behind bars and to defend those about to be imprisoned. Already, she and SCLC have joined forces to defend Emily Butler, a young Georgia woman accused of murdering her supervisor at the Internal Revenue Service's huge installation in DeKalb County. What will eventually grow out of this alliance is also unclear, but certainly, the goals and hopes are high. As Angela Davis told the group that gathered in Martin King's old church in Atlanta when the alliance was announced...
Married. Charles Njonjo, 52, Kenya's debonair Attorney General; and Margaret Bryson, 34, daughter of white Christian missionaries and a supervisor of French instruction for Kenya's Ministry of Education; both for the first time; in Nairobi...
...they died, he went to school on the Indian reservation, lured there by the promise that he would be allowed to instruct the other children in the old ways-the rich rituals and traditions of the tribe that were Tom's only legacy from his parents. The school supervisor, however, had a different idea, expressed with smug official tolerance: "Let him learn the new ways first...
Permit employees to organize their own work. Polaroid lets its scientists pursue their own projects and order their own materials without checking with a supervisor; film assembly workers are allowed to run their machines at the pace they think best. AT&T eased supervision of its shareholder correspondents and let them send out letters to complainants over their own signatures, without review by higher-ups. Absenteeism decreased and turnover was practically eliminated. Syntex Corp. allowed two groups of its salesmen to set their own work standards and quotas; sales increased 116% and 20% respectively over groups of salesmen who were...
...convicted felons, it would help replace an antiquated and overcrowded facility in Richmond. It therefore must be located in a central part of the state, near good roads and close to well-equipped hospitals. Green Springs, in Louisa County, filled all the requirements. In 1970 the county board of supervisors, delighted at the prospect of gaining part of the prison's $1.5 million annual payroll, endorsed the project. As for the historic architecture, said Supervisor R. Earl Ogg, "Why, Virginia is full of houses like that...