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Harvard raised the stocks of Alcoa. Kaiser and Reynolds considerably with their use of aluminum today. The Crimson lashed out 15 hits, eight in succession in a nine-run sixth inning, and five went for extra bases. Resident axemen Bingham and Mike Stenhouse continued to baffle anyone with an arm. Both went 3-for-4 while Bingham lashed two long triples. In addition, outfielder Charlie Santos-Buch extended his hitting streak to six with a base hit to left during batting practice in the sixth...
...says he wants nothing more than to be a general repairman at a Louisiana chemical factory. But to many people Weber personifies the sticky question of reverse discrimination. He had come to the unfamiliar setting of the nation's high court to hear oral arguments in a case, Kaiser Aluminum vs. Weber, that will make his name as well known as Allan Bakke's. In Bakke the court outlawed explicit racial quotas for admission to universities receiving public funds; Weber tackles the more far-reaching issue of racial preference in employment...
Weber was rejected by craft-training programs at Kaiser's Gramercy, La., plant, in which half the places were reserved for minorities. The program had been established by Kaiser and the United Steelworkers, Weber's union, in 1974 to remedy racial imbalance in the skilled labor force. Less than 2% of these craftsmen were black, although blacks made up 39% of the local work force. During 100 minutes of oral arguments last week, Weber's lawyer, Michael Fontham, said that such an explicit racial quota violated Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bans...
...outlaw only "invidious" discrimination. Said Chief Justice Warren Burger: "What you are saying is that you can discriminate for good motives, but not for bad motives." Gottesman responded that Congress had not intended to prohibit voluntary affirmative action, like the training program set up by the Steelworkers and Kaiser. If Weber wins, warned the company's lawyer, Thompson Powers, it "will literally end affirmative action...
...last merged from the patent office and won a succession of academic posts in Prague and Zurich. Finally, on the ve of World War I, in spite of his distaste for Germany's pervasive militarism, he accepted a professorship at the University of Berlin and an appointment to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute as head of a newly created center for theoretical physics...