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Founding Father. The new breed was born of frustration. In 1945, a group of Midwestern mink ranchers and businessmen decided to try to start a sable industry in the U.S. Since all the best sables were in the Soviet Union, the group offered to swap live American mink for live Soviet sable. Their Russian counterparts agreed and the animals were exchanged. Though the sables arrived in fine health, there was a rather serious problem: all the males had been castrated...
Frequently the Jew has been held up by the Negro as a model of hard work and group solidarity. Says Rustin: "Many a black mother will say to her son, 'Look at that Jew. Why don't you study the way he does and get ahead instead of dropping out of school?' " A 1964 study of Negro attitudes by the University of California Survey Research Center indicated that blacks in general were more favorably disposed to Jews than were white gentiles, and more inclined to reject stereotypes of the Jew as "clannish" or "conspiratorial." Sociologist Drake notes this feeling...
While this approach coincides with President Nixon's plans for "black capitalism," it is not the only solution. The Jew has ample resources within his religious tradition to eliminate inequities that cause interracial tension. Last year, for example, at the suggestion of some Boston Jews, a group of Negro tenement dwellers presented their grievances against their Jewish landlord to a beth din, or religious court. "This was a bunch of very old guys who haven't read James Baldwin or Rap Brown," says Boston's Leonard Fein, "and they wouldn't know a social-action council if they fell over...
...system does away with the post of president and divides responsibility largely among three vice chairmen, who report only to Chairman Fred J. Borch, the man who gave up the presidency but remains very much the chief executive. The group's main task is to squeeze more earnings out of G.E.'s steadily increasing sales. Last week in Manhattan, Borch publicly introduced his triumvirate-William Dennler, Jack S. Parker and Herman Weiss. He also reported that sales reached a record $8.4 billion in 1968-double ten years ago-but profits did not keep pace. A preliminary estimate shows...
Cold Shoulder. Atlanta-born Parks grew up in Dayton, Ohio. His father was a wine steward, his mother a some time domestic servant. After working his way through Ohio State ('39); he joined the Pabst Brewing Co. and later headed a small group of Negro salesmen who cultivated ghetto markets for the firm. After settling in Baltimore in 1944, he started the sausage firm in 1951. Just what he did during the years between is a bit vague...