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...African-American, was recently hailed nationally as the model for diversifying its audience. The Symphony is first-rate, the film and music industries are growing and the theatrical production is explosive. Historically, the South has produced such artists as Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor and Truman Capote. Not bad for a population "so crippled by inbred cultural racism that they could barely demonstrate that they were morally or intellectually superior to brute beasts...
...moral morass of the nuclear age in The Bedford Incident (1965); and a hardworking family man at odds with his unreliable brother in A Thousand Clowns (1965), the role that resulted in a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. From 1979 to 1981 he played Carroll O'Connor's business partner in an All in the Family spin-off, Archie Bunker's Place...
...rather than meet its demands for better pay, benefits and safety measures. The FAA fired all 11,000 striking controllers, then contracted with IBM to deliver a system of high-tech computers that would rule the skies. "Rather than incremental changes, they tried to reinvent the system," says Mike Connor, NATCA's director of safety and technology. "They were trying to computerize everything, but you can't computerize human reasoning or decision making." After investing $2 billion and watching the projected costs balloon from $8 billion to $37 billion, still with no functioning system in sight, the FAA pulled...
...Francisco, each controller not only carries the work load of three but works mandatory six-day weeks as well. Union officials dryly note that even with the $3.7 million a year shelled out for overtime in the New York area, the FAA comes out ahead. Says NATCA's Connor: "You aren't paying medical insurance or retirement costs...
...Connor sits in his Brooklyn office and fields calls from the media. "We made a mistake," he says grimly. "We will try to make sure this never happens again." Looking back, he says, "I should have thrown bombs in the CWA's doorway." The initials themselves infuriate him. At least, he says, "we will say our mea culpa. We're not going to run behind confidentiality laws and not admit we've made a mistake...