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Some stock analysts are confident that Robins will overcome its Dalkon Shield ordeal. Says Louis Hannen of Wheat, First Securities in Richmond: "The company will survive in some form or other." Concludes Craig Dickson of Interstate Securities in Charlotte, N.C.: "Anything that allows Robins to separate its problems with the Dalkon Shield from its basic businesses will benefit the company, and probably all concerned...
...Clarence Dickson, the first black to graduate from the Miami police academy, proudly stood for a picture of the class in which he ranked third out of 16. A few days later, while Dickson was out on patrol, the class reassembled and a new, all-white "official" picture was taken without him. Last month the Miami police department held another solemn ceremony from which Dickson, 50, could not be excluded. For he was being installed as Miami's chief of police, the first black to hold that job in the racially troubled city...
...Dickson and Woodfork thus joined a growing group of blacks across the country who have reached the pinnacle of law enforcement. The police chiefs of four of the nation's six largest cities--New York, Chicago, Houston and Detroit--are now black, as are twelve of the top police officials in the 50 largest cities. The eight-year-old National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives now numbers some 60 police chiefs, directors of public safety and sheriffs among its 700 regular members. Ten years ago, there was only one black chief in a large city, Hubert Williams, police director...
...major cities where they serve have at least a 25% black population, and the appointment of a black has commonly been seen as a concession to the minority community, one that is, of course, standard in U.S. urban history. But the new appointees are no guarantee against continued turmoil. Dickson is Miami's third chief in the past year. "If I only last a week more," he says, "I'll be happy knowing that I reached...
...Dickson Murgazi Hamilton...