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...steel pole, went on to 14 ft. in his sophomore year at Rice University. After that he joined the parade to the catapult-like fiber glass pole and ran into trouble. "It took me forever to get used to it," he says. "I didn't really learn to bend the pole until this year." In mid-May at Modesto, Calif., he hit 16 ft. 4½ in.-and he has not been that low since...
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...Right Time. Quite a few companies have asked colleges and Negro organizations to help them find Negro management trainees. In some cases this is a calculated gesture, a sort of bend-over-backward bow that has been forced by social and political pressures. Says New York University Associate Placement Director Andre Beaumont...
...irrefutable bit of logic that forced South Bend, Ind., to open job-training schools: minimal relief for 6,900 workers let out by Studebaker Corp. last December would cost about $1,000,000 a year more than a big program to retrain them. Now, as a result of the economic blow that it suffered, South Bend is the patternmaker of a branch of U.S. education that could potentially enroll most of the nation's 4,000,000 unemployed...
Hidden Illiterates. South Bend's effort is a joint venture of the local, state and federal governments, plus the nonprofit National Council on the Aging. On a grant from the U.S. Labor Department, the council interviewed 1,348 of the dropped employees of 50 years and older, many of them Negroes and men of Polish and Hungarian extraction who had worked for Studebaker all their lives and had never before hunted for a job. Testing by the Indiana Employment Security Division showed that more than a tenth of the men had forgotten-or never knew-how to read...