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According to Charles R. Rumelin, a counselor at the OCS-OCL, over a thousand Harvard students will take the civil service Summer Employment Examination this year, while the federal government will hire only 200 to 300 of them...
...everywhere" strategy for the nomination, Carter entered every state caucus and all but one of the 31 primaries (West Virginia was the exception-and that only because his slate of delegates failed to qualify). In the early days, he recalled later, "I doubt if one out of a thousand of you had ever heard my name. We went into factory shift lines, shopping centers, country courthouses and city halls, livestock sale barns and farmers' markets-to talk a little and listen...
Although the price increases were rescinded in the wake of mass strikes, the arrest of several thousand rioting workers proved to be yet another government blunder. The subsequent trials of about 100 rioters served to unite workers, intellectuals, students and the still powerful Roman Catholic Church against the regime. In a recent sermon, Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński, 75, the revered Primate of Poland, lamented from the pulpit that "it is painful when workers must struggle for their rights from a workers' government...
...Carter unabashedly took off on his own prepared denunciation of Administration foreign policy. In this, Carter's tactic was reminiscent of the way General Charles de Gaulle, brushing aside a flurry of specific, needling press questions, would begin loftily: "I have been asked about Algeria." In a thousand living rooms, people might say, "Carter's not answering the question," but Carter was willing to take that chance (as was Ford) to score a point. For these were not true debates, nor true press conferences (they were closer to an extended Meet the Press...
...Graham's workers managed to register a few thousand new voters over the summer and early fall, and she thinks most of them voted for her on Tuesday...