Word: directors
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...Jordan alone in trying to change the direction of recent arguments about black-Jewish relations, a problem that surfaced after the resignation of U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young following secret contact with the Palestine Liberation Organization. Benjamin L. Hooks, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, sent a statement last week to the N.A.A.C.P.'s 1,700 U.S. branches urging that "our historic close working relationships with the American Jewish community" be maintained and strengthened...
Nonetheless, last week A.S.U. Athletic Director Fred Miller released statements from four players who swear that they witnessed the assault. One of them, Steve Chambers, told TIME: "He's hit me with pipes, boards and a ship's rope." Another A.S.U. player said that team members were asked to sign affidavits stating that they never saw Kush hit Rutledge. Some signed. "I learned that Frank Kush was attempting to cover up the fact that he hit Kevin Rutledge," says Miller. "I could not allow our athletes and coaches to be further intimidated.' Meanwhile, Rutledge's family...
Some fans speculate that Kush's firing may be part of a university attempt to settle out of court with an apology and token damages for Rutledge. But an influential group of Sun Devils boosters, the Sun Angels, loudly demanded that Kush be reinstated and Athletic Director Miller suspended...
...Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, an unwieldy bureaucracy that perpetuates the status quo. Because scientists who belong to the C.N.R.S. have civil service status, they cannot be fired once they have received tenure. Promotions are based on seniority rather than on competition. Says Michel Crozier, a research director at C.N.R.S.: "Once you have a system where procedures as well as promotions come from conforming to the social situation, it means that it is absolutely impossible to get people to cooperate in a bold venture...
More power, therefore, to Director Ivory and his collaborator, Jhabvala, for making the effort, and for providing a reasonably faithful and literate screen version of the tale. It is good to hear subtle and intelligent conversation in our native accents issuing from a movie screen-and to see New England caught in its glorious fall foliage...