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...Negro graduate were competing for the same job and were equal in every respect save skin color, the job would go to the Negro." Some defense contractors feel it is good business to display Negroes conspicuously at drafting tables and in labs. Consumer-oriented companies are inclined to woo Negro trainees to avoid the unpleasantness of picket lines and sit-ins. By and large, however, U.S. companies are seeking Negroes for promising jobs because they feel it is the right thing to do and the right time to do it. "We are looking for brains," says Swift & Co. Recruiter Edward...
...finest-quality ceramic tile are involved in a fierce fight to win a bigger part of this growing market. The battle was evident last week at the opening of the New York World's Fair, where dozens of building-materials makers have set up displays to woo the public, from a house of Formica inside and out to one that is practically all glass...
...even calls him a fool. But Barrett upsets her mastery, undermines her confidence; he irritates because he knows more about wines and paintings, he interrupts a tete a tete, mains a jambes in Tony's study, and his seductive offers of stability and the seductress whom he offers woo Tony away from her. Tony is unimportant, but her pride is up; she must defeat Barrett by getting him back...
...France's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville pleaded Spain's cause logically and eloquently. Spanish diplomats had tried using the engagement of Spain's Prince Carlos and The Netherlands' Princess Irene, as well as the Spanish birth of Belgium's Queen Fabiola, to woo the Low Countries. Nothing could shake the bitter Socialist Francophobes of Belgium and Italy. "The Belgian government can never accept this Spain," snapped Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, though he did not exclude bilateral trade agreements with Common Market nations. Italy's Ambassador Antonio Venturini made it plain that...
...Rugantino is musically underprivileged, except for a couple of lilting serenades, Ciumachella and Roma. By U.S. standards, the dance numbers are unsophisticated, but one carnival scene with masks and harle quins manages to echo commedia dell'arte. Rugantino's appeal is that it is smilingly content to woo an audience rather than...