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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...directives, but the job often is either a stepping stone to a higher, paid office, or, as one sometime-friend, sometime enemy of the board put it, "a nice something to do for a housewife who's bored and wouldn't mind riding around in taxis on an expense account all day." The members receive no salary, which excludes citizens without sufficient support elsewhere, while the committee is elected city-wide, preventing the city's 17 per cent black population from winning political strength equal to their 34 percent representation among Boston students...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Not quite the same old song | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

...first, it appeared to French police like a case of straightforward, though exceptionally grand larceny. Early last July, Hervé de Vathaire, 49, the chief accountant of France's huge Dassault conglomerate, strolled into the Banque Nationale de Paris and signed a withdrawal order on the personal account of his employer. The sum was unusually large: 8 million francs ($1.6 million) in 500-franc notes. Still, no one at the bank thought to question De Vathaire as he lugged two big suitcases out of the bank; after all, he had long been empowered to sign Industrialist Marcel Dassault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Prodigal Accountant | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

...Allows a contribution of up to $1,750 annually to an individual retirement account (IRA) owned jointly by a husband and wife, or up to $875 annually to two separately owned IRAS, even though one spouse is unemployed. At present, no contributions can be made for a nonworking spouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: Surprise Some Real Reform | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

...Kennedy really did not need any makeup, Nixon rejected an offer of professional cosmetic help from the network. Instead, Nixon had his own makeup man apply Lazy Shave, a light pancake makeup, for the famous 5 o'clock shadow. Yet even a poor makeup job does not wholly account for his pale, sickly appearance in the first debate. As Ted Rogers, Nixon's radio and TV technical adviser, later explained, "No TV camera, no makeup man can hide bone-weariness, physical fatigue. He was actually sick. He had a fever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Re-Viewing the '60 Debates | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

...emphatic voice, he ticks off a list of ways in which GM has used its power to aid black-owned businesses. During his five years, Sullivan boasts, the auto giant has increased its advertising in black publications from 66,000 lines annually to 1.3 million, has opened an account in every one of the nation's 84 black-owned banks and has placed $2.5 billion of the insurance on its buildings with black underwriters. When he joined the board, Sullivan says, GM bought at most $2 million worth of parts and supplies from black manufacturers. This year the figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIRECTORS: The Black on GM's Board | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

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