Word: director
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shareholders' meeting after another, critics hurl epithets ("partner in apartheid," "friend of discrimination"). The N.A.A.C.P., hardening its stand, now calls for a total withdrawal of Yankee firms from white-dominated parts of South Africa. The Rev. Leon Sullivan, a black minister from Philadelphia and a director of General Motors, has been urging a strict code of conduct for U.S. companies in the land of apartheid and demanding that they actively help black workers overcome various bars to forming unions. Anti-apartheid protests stand to intensify on campuses this fall, and many universities and foundations have decided to sell their...
...dues deducted for a union, they were invited to the company's welfare department and asked if they understood what they had done; most of the workers subsequently withdrew their dues deduction, and the unionizing effort stalled. By way of explanation, Rodney G. Ironside, GM's personnel director in South Africa, declared that the company only wanted to help the employees: "There are 114 ways a black can be relieved of his money and GM is not going to be one of them." GM's Detroit headquarters has since moved to push its South African subsidiary more...
...1960s: "What American companies have done so far has been essentially cosmetic. The basic inhumanity of life for blacks in South Africa continues unabated." The New York-based Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, a coalition of several Roman Catholic orders and Protestant denominations, urges a U.S. withdrawal unless, as Director Timothy Smith puts it, the government "takes steps to give full political, economic and social rights to the black majority...
...stuff clearly throbs on. "Black denim" jeans, the dark, stiff kind that James Dean wore, are big sellers right now, as are the sexy, $32-and-up numbers put out by big-name designers. The blue-textile phenomenon may well have passed its sales prime, says Norman Karr, executive director of the Men's Fashion Association, "but there are many good years left...
Like Badlands, Director Terrence Malick's remarkable first film, his new work is a bleak and unstinting attack on America's materialistic culture. But Malick is an artist, not a polemicist; his scabrous ideas are expressed in the elegiac terms of a fable. In Days of Heaven he tells of a migrant worker, Bill (Richard Gere), who travels from Chicago with his lover Abby (Brooke Adams) and his kid sister Linda (Linda Manz) to harvest wheat for an aristocratic Texas farmer (Playwright Sam Shepard). Tired of "nosing around like a pig" and infuriated by his employer...