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Hill, who is single, allows few diversions from her work. But her friends insist that she has never been prudish or hypersensitive. "She was not a church mouse," says William Kennard, a Washington lawyer who was a close friend at Yale. Bill Hassler is a Washington attorney who was a friend of Hill's at law school, where he would confide to her the details of his romantic ups and downs. She would listen, he recalls, without embarrassment. "I wouldn't hesitate to invite her to an R-rated movie," he says...
...Mayor Coleman Young as a passenger. The car was a white Eldorado with red-and-blue pinstriping, commemorating -and attempting to make a profit from - the Bicentennial. Two hundred of those cars were made, each selling for about $11,000 ($25,000 in today's dollars). Edward C. Kennard, Cadillac's general manager, said at the time: "Like the running board and the rumble seat, the convertible is an item that history has passed by." Not quite...
Wise Wall Street hands urge the unsophisticated to stay out of this part of the market. Says Oppenheimer & Co. Vice President Stephen Kennard: "This business is absolutely unsuitable for the little investor." Arbitrager Jeff Tarr, the managing partner of Junction Partners, says he is concerned about arbitrage's future profitability now that so many unsuspecting investors believe that the field is "sexy." Says he: "The history of Wall Street is that when anything gets sexy like this, you should sell it short. Generally, when something is written up publicly, you lose money...
...They mainly work the soybean and cotton fields that surround the tiny county seat of Eutaw. 80 miles southwest of Birmingham. Greene County is poor: the median per capita income is $4,019. But its black residents are proud of a civil rights revolution they helped create. Says John Kennard, the county's first black tax assessor: "One of the most cherished things our people have here in the black belt is the right to vote." TIME Atlanta Bureau Chief Joseph N. Boyce visited Eutaw last week. His report...
Officials of Greene County say it is important to extend the Voting Rights Act so that other areas can duplicate these gains. Explains Assessor Kennard: "We came through it all. But there's Pickens County to the north with a majority of black residents but no black elected officials, and Hale County, which has just begun with black membership on the county commission." Judge Branch adds that failure to renew the act could lead to backsliding. Says he: "It would turn back the clock on a lot of the progress...