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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1969
Page
8
A UPI report notes that graduates in June face many choices as about 1500 firms seek new hires. Top schools or regional colleges alike show heavy recruiting, with engineers in demand and salaries rising, while firms keep asking for qualified seniors.
The piece surveys college recruiting by major firms since 1937, noting 697 interviews and 20 hires after visits to 60 campuses. Dow faces protests over napalm in Vietnam, while minority and women graduates encounter ongoing discrimination. Tuskegee reports heavy interviewer turnout. Columbia and Texas placement chiefs discuss screening limits and bias. Dow targets diverse campuses from MIT to Newark College of Engineering.
A UPI report by Daniel Dresdoff surveys how dating terms vary across Latin America with terms in Puerto Rico Argentina Chile Colombia and Mexico. It also notes lingering chaperone traditions in smaller towns and villages and describes social expectations for young people and family involvement in dating practices.
A nineteen year old American student in Paris reports warmth from French peers and a welcoming atmosphere for US students. He notes high costs of nightlife but affordable museums and student meals, while social life centers on cafes and group outings. He highlights easy social contact with French youths and potential for cross cultural friendship.
Four UP I reporters under 30 craft stories. Thomas Powers 28 Karlyn Barker 22 Daniel Dresdoff 28 and John Sims 28 contribute inaugural pieces from their newsroom perspectives.
A Riviera city model railroad station built six years ago for 1.6 million dollars sits unused because no tracks were laid. Red tape blocked rail connection from the old station about 1,000 yards away. Officials say tracks will be added by 1972.
John L. Campbell, 24, serves as a special youth liaison for President Nixon in the White House area. He travels the country meeting students to study service projects and potential expansion of programs like Vista and the Peace Corps. Campbell aims to involve more youth in government concerns and is weighing ideas on lowering the voting age and draft elimination.
A new Army project called CAMS the Cybernetic Anthropomorphus Machine System weighs 3000 pounds stands 11 feet high and walks on four legs. Developed by General Electric for about one million dollars CAMS can move at five miles per hour traverse 18 inch barriers and cross rough terrain. Guided by a single operator who can even work blindfolded CAMS resembles a skeletal silver horse and demonstrates balance climbing logs and moving on two legs.
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