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...Federal Government is not yet in a position to claim that it is enforcing the letter, let alone the spirit, of civil rights laws." Blacks see Nixon, claimed Clifford Alexander Jr., former chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, as "actively against our goals." The National Urban League's Harold Sims charged that under Nixon "the nation is still in the grip of a not silent but selfish majority...
Wallace is but one of dozens of minority-group small businessmen whom Dunphy and his team have launched. Dunphy sold his own prosperous paper-bag business to the Hammermill Co. in 1968; he now works for the Sealed Air Corp. He joined his former business school roommate, Harold Tanner, in forming a group of top-and middle-level executives who spend five to 15 hours a week helping minority businessmen turn a profit. Says Dunphy: "Jobs and education are still the main event in aiding minority groups in America. But small business is the most difficult field to open compared...
...Telephone & Telegraph Corp., America's biggest conglomerate, surprised investors by agreeing to sell a clutch of household names that it had acquired in recent years. Among them were home builders Levitt & Sons, Avis Inc. and Hamilton Life Insurance. To ITT insiders, however, the decision was no surprise. Chairman Harold Geneen chose to sell because the alternative was a costly antitrust battle with the Justice Department that would have tied up his company in courts for years, and might still have ended in divestiture...
...brood of short stories already behind her, Penelope Gilliatt has most recently written the movie, Sunday Bloody Sunday, which has won her extravagant praise. As she sipped a drink in the lounge of New York City's Hotel Algonguin, a watering-hole for literary notables in the city, from Harold Ross, Dorothy Parker and James Thurber on down, Gilliatt revealed her surprise at the movie's reception. "I am very touched that people respond to it as they do. I thought it wouldn't travel--that it was a movie made for about 2 and a half people...
...mano a mano for novelists who are all thumbs. Two of the greatest schlockmeisters in the history of solid waste have just published novels about the auto industry. Arthur Hailey's Wheels appeared at the beginning of the fall season (TIME, Oct. 11). Now comes Harold Robbins to gun down Hailey with-The Carburetors! No, with The Betsy...