Word: fletcherism
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...muscle-including a threatened presidential veto of the appropriations measure-into its fight to persuade Congress to reverse itself. Nixon himself branded the addition of the rider as "dirty pool." Labor Secretary Shultz publicly scolded the A.F.L.-C.I.O. for its opposition to the Philadelphia Plan. Assistant Secretary Arthur A. Fletcher called the plan "our last chance to narrow the income-distribution gap between whites and blacks." As Congress raced toward adjournment, the House went along with the Administration and finally rejected the crippling amendment, 208-156, and the Senate concurred in a midnight vote...
...Morality" diminishes biblical absolutes of right and wrong, as in Joseph Fletcher's Situation Ethics...
Died. Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, 83, World War II naval hero of the Battle of Midway, turning point of the Pacific war; in Pebble Beach, Calif. In June 1942, Spruance and Admiral Frank Fletcher led a task force of 353 warplanes and 50 fighting ships against a vastly superior Japanese armada, and in a three-day battle sank four of the imperial navy's carriers, thereby virtually destroying its main offensive punch...
...always interesting to see how the ghost scenes in Shakespeare are played. De Grazia has Fletcher Word, a black actor, play the Ghost from atop a platform. Word dressed entirely in black, moves with a mime's precision through Oriental poses, enshrouded always in a huge cape. The effect is very striking...
...change wage differentials if necessary, etc. I was there at the conference. But I wish to point out right here and now that I was there as an interested individual. I participated in discussion neither as a member of SDS, nor as a member of Afro, but as Diorita Fletcher, black woman, class of '71. My statements to John Butler were made in that light. I resent your none-too-subtle efforts to exploit my presence for SDS or newspaper mileage...