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Thus Peter Matthiessen in his book Blue Meridian, The Search for the Great White Shark. Even Matthiessen's narrative power pales before the documentary film based on his chronicle of the hunt. In the book, he follows the obsessive quest of Peter Gimbel, department-store-heir-turned-adventurer, in the last unexplored regions of the earth. The chronicler is a fine natural historian, but at times his subject makes any words inadequate. In Blue Water, White Death, it is the camera that achieves what prose approximates. In the waters of Ceylon, Madagascar and the Mozambique Channel...
...letter also charged Gimbel with refusal "to take steps to preserve the environment...
Black said that "part of the letter is incorrect." He declined to elaborate, however, saying that the specific issues of the boycott: are being handled by Gimbel Brothers' New York office...
Douglas Schoen '74, local coordinator for the New England Committee to Boycott Gimbels and Saks, presented store manager John W. Black with a letter charging company president Bruce A. Gimbel with refusal to consider the establishment of an "on-the-job training program for minority workers on his construction sites...
...charges of racial bias stem from Gimbel's alleged refusal to live up to an agreement made with Harlem Fight Back to institute an on-the-job training program for black and Puerto Rican workers at the construction site of a new Gimbels store located at 86th Street and Lexington Ave, in New York City...