Word: director
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jewish family and the rise of a young SS officer, verged "dangerously close to soap opera." Eventually WDR, largest of West Germany's regional channels, bought the show for $500,000, then arranged for other stations to join in a simultaneous broadcast that covered the country. Explained Program Director Günter Rohrbach: "A production on this subject cannot be ignored in West Germany, of all places...
MARRIAGE REVEALED. Brian DePalma, 38, director of Hollywood chillers (Carrie, The Fury); and Nancy Allen, 28, an actress featured in Carrie; both for the first time; on Jan. 12; in Manhattan...
...suit, Sears asks the courts to declare its existing affirmative action program to be in full accord with the law. Insists Ray Graham, Sears' director of equal opportunity: "We've made a tremendous effort to comply." He notes that since 1966 the company proportion of women managers has risen from 20% to 36%; of women craftworkers from 3.8% to 8.1%; of black managers from 4% to 7.2%; and of black craftworkers from 2.8% to 8.9%. But the EEOC now demands that 50% of new management positions and 33% of new craft openings be given to women and Sears...
...Sunday-school girls were killed, a young white lawyer named Charles Morgan Jr. stood up before the businessmen's club and blamed the entire white community for the crime. Driven out of his town by harassment and death threats, he returned to the South in 1964 as the director of the American Civil Liberties Union Southern Region. He sued for integrated prisons and juries, legislative reapportionment and voting rights, and defended the likes of Muhammad Ali, Julian Bond and Mississippi N.A.A.C.P. Leader Aaron Henry...
Other public interest lawyers are not so pleased; one calls Morgan a "moral Houdini." In addition to representing Sears, Morgan is paid a retainer by the Tobacco Institute to argue "smokers' rights." Protests Mark Green, director of Congress Watch, a Nader consumer lobby: "Morgan is using civil liberties as a smokescreen for corporate interests. It's really a bizarre evolution for a public interest lawyer...