Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inconceivable? Perhaps, but then most of us spend our time convincing each other that the war is wrong. Rarely do we hear anyone who defends U.S. involvement and only a few of us have ever conversed with someone who has actually fought over there. The war has now been going on long enough so that students who dropped out of college in '64 and joined the Army are beginning to filter back to Harvard after their tours of duty in Vietnam...
...Negro employment and discrimination in industry, San Francisco Human Rights Commission Chairman William Becker insists that "the hard struggle is still for entry. Promotions are tomorrow's problem."Perhaps - but tomorrows have a way of dawning fast. In Boston last week, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination agreed to hear complaints by eleven Negroes that General Motors had bypassed them and made junior white employees foremen in its Framingham, Mass., Fisher Body plant. In New York, 14 Negro employees accused the Chase Manhattan Bank of discriminating against their advancement to computer training...
When United Auto Workers Boss Walter Reuther emerged from a conference with his top aides one day last week, Detroit expected to hear the ritualistic announcement of a strike dead line at General Motors Corp. Instead, Reuther slyly proclaimed what he called a "target date" of Dec. 14. Only if there is no settlement by that time, explained Walter, would an actual dead line be set - for some time after the first of next year. Reason for the move: by avoiding an early strike, the union's 372,000 G.M. workers will be assured of their two paid holidays...
Henry Steele Commager disappointed the people who came last night to hear him praise or condemn present American life in a talk titled "Was America a Mistake...
...hear voices and there's no one there...