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...also entered into "extended conversations" about the Kodak-FIGHT dispute, particularly with FIGHT- founder Saul Alinsky, who was in Cambridge too. Moynihan knows Alinsky and calls him "an honorable man." From those conversations it seemed to him that it would be fruitful to reopen negotiations...
Victory brought an outpouring of happier copy. "Capture the excitement of our victories," said one ad, "on Kodak colour film." Read another: "The Tiran Straits are open! And the export of C.D. Edible Oil resumed." A brewery ad pictured Israeli Actor Mike Burstein in uniform pouring a glass of "Beer -a drink to victory...
...greater chance for people experienced in these fields to rise to the top." Seymour's top is a pretty lofty place. J. Walter Thompson has worldwide billings of $558 million, and its list of clients reads like a blue book: Ford Motors, Liggett & Myers, RCA, Pan American, Eastman Kodak, Irving Trust Co., Scott Paper, Kraft Foods. So solid is the agency's work that some clients have been with it for generations. Libby, McNeill & Libby has been a customer since 1897, and Lever Bros, appeared...
Nobody could be more surprised at the fuss than Kodak itself. Though Negroes make up 13% of the city's population (v. only 3.4% of Kodak's 40,000 employees), many are unskilled workers who have arrived from the South in the past few years. In the face of that influx, Kodak has done its part to hold the unemployment rate at a remarkably low 1.7%; last year alone, the company hired 600 Negroes. But by entering into the Dec. 20 agreement, Kodak undeniably blundered-for which it has apologized publicly time and again...
Presiding over the meeting, Chairman William S. Vaughn made it clear that Kodak had no intention of restoring the agreement. With that, Florence called for a protest pilgrimage of Negroes to Rochester on July 24, the third anniversary of the city's riots. Meanwhile, Kodak has hired a Harlem-based public relations firm, Uptown Associates, to promote its products in "ethnic markets"-apparently in hopes of forestalling any Negro boycott. Otherwise, the company is conducting business as usual. The man who signed the controversial document is still on the job. And Kodak expects to go on quietly recruiting Negro...