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Perhaps the most striking character in Harlem in the Evening is Garr, a disenchanted young man played by Lester Payne. Garr is less obvious in the production compared to the flashy prostitutes, Roscoe, or Madam Alberta K. Johnson. But he is the strongest representative of the underlying tension of blacks in a culture dominated by whites, the tension that never surfaces in many of Hughes's characters. Garr asks the question that lies dormant in all of them, a question that appears only in the worst moments of despair for a people used to despair: "What happens to the dream...
...statewide circulation. The Union Leader, which is published by William Loeb and managed by B.J. McQuaid, is without a doubt the most right-wing major newspaper in America. It carries editorials signed by Loeb on the front page each day, in which he takes positions which would make Lester Maddox appear liberal. It is frequently contended that the Union Leader's political effect is only negative--that it can destroy a candidate but cannot elect one. This was, however, proven untrue in November of 1972, when Georgia-born Meldrim Thompson--a John Birch Society supporter and personal political creation...
Emmett G. Solomon, the courtly 64-year-old chairman of San Francisco's Crocker Bank, presented his board with a hand-picked successor last August. Not surprisingly, the candidate was Lester Peacock, 43, the bank's president and a fellow traditionalist, who seemed particularly interested in bankerly decorum. Peacock once remarked to his associates: "No gentleman ever wears brown shoes." The bank's board turned Peacock down flat because Crocker's pin-stripe conservatism had simply not been paying off. While more innovative, bolder California banks were gaining ground, the earnings of Crocker, the nation...
When blame is apportioned for the crisis, however, the Nixon Administration and the oil industry have plenty of company. Who gets the rest? Just about everybody. "The central thing is that the whole economy was based on growth," says Caltech Environmentalist Lester Lee, "and there was almost a religious conviction that growth and per capita energy use go together. That was a hard assumption to challenge." Paul Ehrlich agrees: "Our whole economic system is set up to maximize profits and put the emphasis on more production rather than on less usage...
Even so, many energy experts argued that Nixon's message was neither urgent or sweeping enough. Says Lester Lees, director of the California Institute of Technology's environmental control laboratory: "The President's program is too little and too late." Lees would have liked the President to call for such measures as revisions in building codes to require more home insulation and reductions in military exercises to save fuel...