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Stephen Tucker's simply designed set and the almost Gothic lighting effects designed by Jack Hanick complemented each other perfectly. Not since the Loeb's 1968 production of The Master Builder has a play's impact owed quite this much to its imposing physical trappings...
...Builder. Winston A. Burnett has illustrated what a Negro manager can do when he finds enough capital to expand. Harlem's Burnett, now plump and 45, learned about construction from the bottom up by working as a painter, plasterer and carpenter in his youth. Later he built one of Harlem's larger contracting firms, Winston A. Burnett Construction Co.; it had a yearly volume of $1,000,000. Despite his experience and his sound business practices-he continually reinvested all profits in the company-Burnett could not get the bank loans, and especially the performance bonds, needed...
Private developers, even if they want to renovate the buildings, find the forces of blight overpowering. When Baltimore Builder Allen Quille, himself a black, set out to rehabilitate one area in order to sell it to black tenants, neighborhood gangs broke in nightly to steal the fixtures, then sold them back to him the next day. He built a fence and bought a watchdog; they stole the dog. Quille put the ringleader on his payroll, and the youth demanded huge raises...
Last week Harvard adopted an Alexander plan, which will ensure that 19% to 23% of the workers on two upcoming campus construction jobs will be nonwhites. It is believed to be the first time that a builder will be bound by contract to hire a specific number of minority workers. The agreement was worked out craft by craft so that non-whites will not be relegated to lower-paying jobs. One-fifth of those who work as subcontractors must be from minorities...
Alexander arrived at the 19%-23% figure not by tallying the percentage of blacks and Puerto Ricans in Cambridge (19.5%) but by counting the number of nonwhites available for jobs in the 20-odd crafts covered by the contracts. Moreover, if the builder is unable to recruit sufficient numbers, Harvard has the right to supply the minority workers...