Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pfeiffer answers to Silverman, but it is widely assumed that she has a clear line to RCA Chairman Griffiths. Her main areas of concentration are government relations, legal affairs and employee relations, and she has also been what Silverman calls a "third eye," or a disinterested critic, in prime-time programming. Naturally enough, Silverman has devoted almost all his attention to programming. Says an NBC executive: "Fred is like an eager little boy with a highly developed feeling and sense of how to fix programs, and he couldn't care less about all this monkey business about corporate skill...
Johnson said that without legal advice he could not predict if it would be feasible to bring a lawsuit against the corporation...
...professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Thursday night suggested that the MIT community take legal action against the university's corporation to force it to use its proxy power in South Africa-based firms to oppose apartheid...
Johnson said, however, that if legal action is necessary to force the ACSR to uphold its policy, the lawsuit would probably receive great support from the MIT community...
...curious to see how it comes out." William B. Swislow '79, a Southern Africa Solidarity Committee member, said last night. "I'm not too sure on the question of the MIT Corporation's legal accountability about its policy. But it would be great if that kind of legal pressure brought results," he added...