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During Eastman Kodak Co.'s annual meeting last week in Flemington, N.J., 600 demonstrators paraded quietly outside the local high school. "Kodak is out of focus," read one placard. "The poor will win," proclaimed another. Attending the meeting briefly, the demonstration's leader, Negro Clergyman Franklin Delano Roosevelt Florence, 33, stalked angrily out, thundering: "This is not a meeting of stockholders. This is a meeting of racists." All the rancor obscured the fact that the company did record business during 1967's first quarter...
...biggest employer in Rochester, N.Y. (pop. 300,000), Kodak has been under fire for months from a militant civil rights organization headed by Florence and bearing the acrimonious acronym FIGHT (for Freedom, Integration, God, Honor-Today). Founded after the city's Negro riots in 1964, FIGHT soon insisted that it be allowed to recruit 600 Negroes for training and employment by Kodak. Amid mounting pressure, a Kodak assistant vice president designated to hold talks with FIGHT signed a document last Dec. 20, bowing to its demands. No sooner was that agreement reached, however, than Kodak repudiated it as "unauthorized...
...Newspaper class has put out five issues of Challenge, complete with reporting, announcements, and editorials. Science is the favorite subject for many of the students. Using Harvard lab facilities, they dissect frogs and do experiments. Photography too has flourished with free supplies provided by the Kodak Company. Of the electives, only Social Studies teacher tried a Summer hill approach, but the boys complained that they spent all their time talking about what the class was going to do without ever doing anything...
Company Shares Market Value I.B.M. 87,634 $30,716,000 Texaco 375,326 26,414,000 General Motors 284,089 22,869,000 Gulf Oil 341,884 17,094,000 Standard Oil (N.J.) 223,523 15,3667,000 Eastman Kodak 117,756 15,132,000 Middle South Utilities 542,114 13,621,000 Ford Motor 293,076 13,298,000 AT&T 210,688 11,588,000 Standard...
...employment." The United Presbyterian Church has a fair-employment clause in all its contracts. The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church and the Board of Homeland Ministries of the Union Church of Christ have sided with a militant Negro organization called FIGHT in a dispute with the Eastman Kodak Co., which is being accused of discriminating against hiring Negroes. Joseph Cardinal Ritter of St. Louis and Catholic Archbishop John F. Dearden of Detroit have announced that they will give preferential treatment to suppliers who give equal opportunity to members of minorities. In innumerable communities, churchmen are fighting for open housing...