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...discrimination-Negroes, he said, hold 10.8% of all jobs in the U.S. but only 3.4% of the jobs in broadcasting. Hiring more Negroes, Johnson suggested, would be the first step to more penetrating and accurate coverage of the Negro community. And in coverage he included society, sports and civic reportage-"the same things you report from the white community. Don't get it all from the police blotter and the rioters...
...learn to talk but to "verbalize") searches for a damning phrase, he hotly charges a subordinate with "unilateral action." Even workers in the "field" when making a report must learn the lingo that will impress their chiefs back in the glass house: "As you know, the object of the Civic Coordination Programme is to tap the dynamics of social change in terms of local aspirations for progress...
This Falstaff is certainly as good, count for count, as the famous Bernstein-Zefferalli job done at the Met a few years ago. Unfortunately the Company will do it only once more, on February 23. Maybe some civic-minded group will picket for more performances...
...with his expensively tailored, double-breasted pin-stripe suits, monogrammed (CBS) shirts and Antonio y Cleopatra cigars, is no leveler. His children go to private schools. And now that he is king of Cleveland's mountain, he can be expected to work from the top to excise the civic decay that has retarded Cleveland's progress...
...running for the City Council for the first time, had finished third, ahead of seven incumbents. And Duehay, assistant dean of the Ed School, led the pack of 18 candidates for the School Committee with 3966 votes. Equally important, two of his fellow candidates also endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association were running second and fifth and looked like sure winners...