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...Richard Clarke, the employment recruiter. Many black executives are referred to by other Negroes as H.N.l.C.s (Head Nigger in Charge); they are assigned to public relations jobs or marketing to black customers but are isolated from real decision making. Yet quite a few blacks are climbing up the corporate ladder. In central Indiana, where the Ku Klux Klan once marauded, three blacks have risen to high management positions at the Cummins Engine Co. of Columbus. There are so many black bankers in Atlanta that they scarcely stir much interest any more, though eyebrows lifted when William Allison, a black antipoverty...
...easy money. The play is too long and a bit diffuse. Managing Director Paul Baker has been ambitious in his effects: Kennedy motorcade films projected at either side of the stage, disembodied J.F.K. quotes, an unexplained girl (the American success?) dreamily stripping and wrapping herself in bunting on a ladder high above the action. But most of it works very effectively. Dallas audiences respond with standing ovations-which may reflect not only enthusiasm for the performance but also a civic relief, the comfort of the elapsed time between then...
Viewing the results, McLaughlin declared that the movement of one group of women up the economic ladder leads to the economic exploitation of another group. Says she of the professional women: "Probably their own freedom is so new that they do not yet think of themselves as employers-a role that until recently was thought to be almost exclusively reserved...
...formation of the CLUW is evidence of a new, pragmatic offshoot of the women's liberation movement: blue-collar feminism. Encouraged by their recent breakthroughs into traditionally male jobs such as apprentice seaman, and construction workers, women on the lower levels of the economic ladder are taking a more aggressive stance. In Gary, Ind., women in District 31 of the United Steelworkers of America will soon open a chapter of the National Organization for Women at union headquarters. In Manhattan, Cornell University's New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations offers a series of courses...
...does. Those students who are aware of it have a sense that the Corporation is a powerful group, wielding ultimate authority in a far-flung and decentralized bureaucracy in which no one claims to hold power. Yet Corporation members themselves insist they are just another rung in the bureaucratic ladder and that their business is by-and-large routine and trivial...