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...black county commissioners, Levi Morrow, a 66-year-old farmer, remembers that a few years ago the white-run highway department tarred the road to within 30 ft. of his front door and then stopped. The foreman explained: "We ain't paving in front of no nigger's door." Says Oscar Williams, a black Peace Corps veteran who now works as administrative assistant to the county commissioners: "We have justice in mind. Black should be beautiful for everyone, not just for black people. But if an agency that has a history of discrimination comes before...
...actively sabotage efficiency. A New Jersey-based oil company, for instance, once installed a $750,000 computer system to keep track of inventory and automatically reorder supplies. Within a few months the company was inundated by unneeded pipes, parts and paper. The reason, one manager recalls, was that "every foreman saw the system as detracting from his authority and adding more red tape. The foremen, I suspect, began faking shortages so the computer would reorder." The computer system was junked...
...Huie. To cover mounting legal bills, Ray later turned his share over to Hanes. The lawyer thus earned at least $25,000 from Huie's magazine articles before Ray fired him. Hanes then assigned his rights in the contract to Ray's second lawyer, Percy Foreman, who anticipated that they would eventually be worth $400,000. When it appeared that there would be no trial, Foreman agreed to take a maximum...
...students entered the construction site, locked the gates and told arriving workmen to leave. The men left peacefully after checking with the construction foreman...
...response to the students' demand that a black man be promoted to crew chief, Harvard has appointed a black helper to the post of assistant foreman in Buildings and Grounds. No black helpers are eligible for promotion by the seniority system on which Harvard presently works...