Word: lawyer
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...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 job discrimination on the basis of race. "You mean you can't avoid discrimination by discriminating?" said Justice Byron White. "Yes, your honor," Fontham replied emphatically...
...union's lawyer, Michael Gottesman, contended that Congress wanted to 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...
...cause of Ford's difficulties is Roy Cohn, the Manhattan lawyer. Since his days as a get-the-dirt investigator for Senator Joseph McCarthy, Cohn has built a deserved reputation as a maverick who relishes the pursuit of the powerful and is as ready to do his pursuing in newsprint as in the courts. For about a year, Cohn has been pressing a suit charging the motor company's boss with a variety of improprieties and seeking a still undetermined amount in damages. Last week Cohn got an assist from a fairly surprising quarter: Henry Ford...
...reported that New York Governor Hugh Carey, the longtime suitor of Ford's daughter Anne, had prevailed on Frank Sinatra to meet with Ford. Safire speculated broadly that Ford hoped that Sinatra's gangland contacts would get to Cohn's underworld law clients and persuade the lawyer to lay off. The column raised such a furor that Safire rather grudgingly wrote another piece reporting the many disclaimers...
...Progressive (circ. 40,000), a respected liberal monthly based in Madison, Wis., had argued that all the material in the article was in the public domain, compiled by a freelance writer who simply read extensively and interviewed numerous experts. Said Progressive Lawyer Earl Munson Jr.: "If Howard Morland can do it, then there is no secret, and the Government is only fooling the public...