The Nation: Maladministration

As a a further hedge against age and sex discrimination, the Department of Labor will issue a supplement to its Dictionary of Occupational Titles in May, rendering job titles inoffensively neuter— if offensively bland and even silly.

The fully revised fourth edition of the dictionary will not be out until 1976, but the department has decided that now is the time for all good neuters to come to the aid of their job descriptions.

Had the dictionary's compilers held sway in an earlier time, Arthur Miller's play could have been called Death of a Sales Representative, and that wellknown refugee from...

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