Word: director
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...summit produced some vivid phrasing too. Urban League Executive Director Vernon Jordan observed of Carter: "He's going to have to say the right prayer, preach the right sermon, sing the right hymn." The Rev. Jesse Jackson, another black leader, told reporters, "We have an energy crisis, an urban crisis, growing racial polarization, a moral crisis. You get all these together and you have a civilizational crisis." At another point, speaking to Carter directly about the vulnerability of the U.S. caused by oil imports, Jackson came up with a back-alley metaphor: "Mr. President, we've got our vital organs...
Saturday, July 7, prominent citizens: former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford; John Gardner, ex-chairman of Common Cause; the Rev. Jesse Jackson, director of Operation PUSH; Lane Kirkland, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO; Sol Linowitz, lawyer and occasional ambassador-at large; Barbara Newell, president of Wellesley...
...Carbone, deputy mayor of Hartford; Sol Chaikin, president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers.' Union; John Filer, board chairman of the Aetna Life and Casualty Co.; Eli Ginzberg, chairman of the National Commission for Employment Policy; Carl Holman, president of the National Urban Coalition; Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the N.A.A.C.P.; Vernon Jordan, executive director of the National Urban League; David Lizarraga, co-chairman of the National Black-Hispanic Democratic coalition; John Lyons, president of the iron workers union; David Mahoney, board chairman of Norton Simoni Inc.; Labor Secretary Ray Marshall; Lloyd McBride, president of the steelworkers union...
...network of NASA and NORAD's space-tracking stations. From NORAD'S underground headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo., calculations about the craft's flight were transmitted to the Skylab Control Center at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center near Houston. There Charles Harlan, the Skylab flight director, estimated the vehicle's probable reentry point, and the possible dangers. He, in turn, was responsible for advising the Skylab Coordination Center at NASA headquarters in Washington whether anything should be done to change Skylab's trajectory. The final decision was up to NASA Administrator Robert A. Frosch...
English S-D1, "English as Foreign Language," has 215 students for the first term. The second session, English S-D2, has 154 students. The course's enrollment has more than doubled over the past three years, Marshall R. Pihl, associate director of the Summer School, said yesterday...