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Barring hitches. Carter was expected to name his Attorney General early this week: former Fifth Circuit Appeals Court Judge Griffin Bell, now a law partner of Carter Adviser Charles Kirbo. Two other appointments could come early in the week but are less certain: John T. Dunlop as Labor Secretary, a post he held under President Ford, and Minnesota Congressman Bob Bergland as Agriculture Secretary...
Women's groups also continued to bombard him with complaints against Dunlop, claiming that he had been insensitive to improving equal employment rights when he was Ford's Labor Secretary. They were quickly joined by Ralph Nader's Public Citizen Congress Watch, the congressional Black Caucus and other groups. But Carter was caught in a crossfire from most of organized labor, which wanted Dunlop. At one point, Carter aides asked AFL-CIO officials to suggest alternatives to Dunlop who would be acceptable to Labor Boss
George Meany. Back came the word: "His first, second, third and fourth choices are Dunlop...
Then the Schlesinger advocates rallied. Aides of AFL-CIO Chief George Meany spoke in Schlesinger's behalf-though some officials speculated that labor's lobbying was partially designed to strengthen John Dunlop's chances of being named Labor Secretary ("You give us Dunlop, and we'll accept Brown," the labor aides seemed to be suggesting). Washington Senator Henry M. Jackson took up the Schlesinger cause. So, in a discreet way, did Admiral Hyman Rickover, Carter's early mentor. Also backing Schlesinger were Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Stennis and Appropriations Committee Chairman John McClellan...
Sporting goods stores and pro shops, long the subdued redoubt of the Wilson Jack Kramer Autograph and the Dunlop Maxply Fort, now offer such large and varied arrays of racquets that the average player is bound to be confused. Which of the gleaming new products will convert a peashooter serve into a Roscoe Tanner cannonball? Will the weekend buff find Chris Evert's steady groundstrokes in a $69 graphite frame by Yamaha, or is the operator so poor that the tool required is a $200 (unstrung) Aldila Cannon? The questions are important because the racquet is "an extension...