Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Through various covert devices of favoritism in the hiring halls, many local officials prevent Negroes and other outsiders from getting a fair share of work. Unions should be compelled to give up exclusive control over apprenticeship programs and standards, although it may be arguable whether industry or Government should take over. It is hardly an accident that in most industries where companies control hiring, training and promotion, the Negro gets a far better break than when such matters are left in labor's hands. Unions could have been a powerful force in helping to elevate the American Negro. Where...
...idea is popular with parents, who find that inflation has made extra cash scarce. Charging on the card often amounts to an interest-free loan for several months. Reason: banks take time in processing the bills, and payment is not due until 25 days after the billing date. Even then, payments can be spaced out, though interest charges amount to as much as 18% a year. Such steep charges can make the cards quite profitable for banks...
...devise procedures for assessing the potential for internal war within national societies; to identify with increased degrees of confidence, these actions which a government might take to relieve conditions which are assessed as giving rise to a potential for internal war; and to assess the feasibility of prescribing the characteristies of a system for obtaining and using the essential information needed for doing the above to things...
...Gray said, the strengthening of the regular City departments may mean that the Community Development Office no longer has to take on some of the jobs it previously did. A study funded by the Ford Foundation is now attempting to determine the proper structure for Cambridge's planning and community development efforts...
...President Pusey can find a successor to Baker by December, Baker will take a six-month sabbatical and let the new dean take over Jan. 1,1970. Otherwise Baker will retire June 30 of next year...