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...some recruiting stations, the men ignored the rule that only female recruiters should weigh and measure female applicants. A female prospect described how a male recruiter "placed his hands on my middle buttocks and traced around in a semicircle. A feeling of uncomfort came over me." She said that he told her, "Redheads really turn me on," and that later, as she filled out some forms, he started rubbing her back, feeling her leg and kissing her. "I pushed myself away," she told the investigator, "and said, 'I think you need to stop...
...blacks who talked into Terkel's tape recorder do not think they will ever be five-fifths American. Joseph Lattimore, 50, a Chicago insurance broker, describes himself as typical. "Being black in America is like being forced to wear ill-fitting shoes," he says. "Some people can bear the uncomfort more than others. Some people can block it from their mind, some can't. When you see some acting docile and some acting militant, they have one thing in common: the shoe is uncomfortable. It always has been and always will...
...space officials steadfastly deny that the U.S. is racing with the Russians to land the first men on the moon, all of the planning and practicing has been carried out with one eye on the Soviet space effort. NASA officials-as well as the rest of the world-are uncomfort ably aware of the huge psychological difference between first and second place in the moon race. U.S. space officials first greeted last month's pioneering flight of Russia's Zond 5 with a mixture of admiration, envy and chagrin, certain that it was a prelude to an imminent...
...When I began," says Albert Kahn, "the real architects would design only museums, cathedrals, capitols. The office boy was considered good enough to do factory buildings. I'm still that office boy." He still makes other architects uncomfort able by calling architecture "90% business and 10% art." Unlike his equally functional-minded contemporary, Frank Lloyd Wright, who gets a free hand from his clients, Kahn preaches to his staff that the client's analysis of the problem is the first step to its solution. Clients who have appreciated this approach include (besides virtually the entire automotive industry...
...none, the hungry one would beg by thrusting his hand through the bars. Often the other chimpanzee would share his food, especially if the two were well acquainted. Sometimes, however, the ape with food would simply shake hands with the other, or turn his back, or become so uncomfort able that he would retreat with the food to a distant corner...
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