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...allows him to handle up to three, limits the job to four years. Cal pays $2,500 for a half-time teaching load the first year, with small raises later. Thus while an un married TA can survive on his stipend, a married grad must put his wife to work-and even then, says Cal Graduate Dean Sanford Elberg, it takes a "religious dedication to get through...
...produced plenty of villains. The strikers turned ugly, on one occasion beat seven injured Pinkerton men to death. Andrew Carnegie, a public friend and private enemy of union labor, scuttied off to Europe before the strike began. Henry Clay Frick, his partner, was left to do all the dirty work-and he did it willingly. Prick's strategy was to break the strongest union in Sam Gompers' infant American Federation of Labor. He succeeded. Not until 1935, with the formation of the C.I.O., did the nation's steelworkers effectively organize again...
Integration-now Methodists regard Kennedy as a reactionary on the racial issue because he shudders at the thought of Northern Methodists picketing churches in Jackson. Kennedy believes that men's hearts as well as church law must be changed if integration is to work-and he has quietly managed to do some of both in his own area...
Professionally Unhappy. Although he reaps a tidy living from surplus record keeping, Washington-born onetime Federal Archivist Leahy is professionally unhappy about the trend to ever more paper work-and somewhat disdainful of the men who create it. "Great men build companies," he says, "and leave the paper shuffling to somebody else. Behind the front line, where the big companies seem to put all their talent, a lot of inefficient people are busy building up their own little empires with unnecessary paper work...
...executives and advertising agencies have so many fingers on the pulse of America that an occasional heartbeat is bound to get recorded. And this fall, as never before, television shows are reflecting the Negro revolution. Negro actors are finding work-and they are getting roles that could be filled by whites. Ad agencies are actually instructing producers to increase Negro casting for the good of sales...