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Alexander's humiliation derived from his bold backing of Lieut. Commander Marcus Aurelius Arnheiter, the hyper-zealous skipper of the radar picket destroyer U.S.S. Vance who was removed from his command off Viet Nam (TIME, Dec. 1). When Amheiter was dismissed without a public hearing, Alexander-who had recommended him for the assignment-at first remained silent in hopes of avoiding an embarrassing scandal. Later, his conviction that Arnheiter's relief would sap the authority of every commanding officer overrode his concern for protocol; he openly demanded reconsideration of the Arnheiter case by Navy Secretary Paul Ignatius...
...more deeply involved in civil rights. In New York, in a sharp speech delivered at the National Retail Merchants Association convention, Charles Y. Lazarus told his colleagues that they must personally take a part in the urban crisis that has storekeepers "living on a volcano." And Neiman-Marcus President Stanley Marcus announced that henceforth civil rights will be as important a factor as price, quality or delivery time in what his six Texas specialty stores in Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston...
Salutary Effect. Specifically, said Marcus in a letter to 9,000 suppliers, Neiman-Marcus intends to deal as much as possible with firms who hire and train more people from minorities. "We would rather do business with a company which is actively and sincerely pursuing a policy of equal opportunity than to continue to do business with one which is not," he said. "The Federal Government requires that every one of its suppliers of goods and services certifies that it is an equal-opportunity employer. We believe a private company should do no less...
...Neiman-Marcus is one of the first retailers to take such a step in the area of buying practices, and civil rights groups responded approvingly. "The announcement will have a salutary effect," said John A. Morsell, assistant executive director of the N.A.A.C.P. "Assuring equal employment opportunity cannot be made the exclusive business of government, and one would think that businessmen would insist upon a major role for business also." Some retailers were less enthusiastic. "This type of action should not fall into the private sector," said Martin B. Kohn, chairman of Baltimore's Hochschild, Kohn & Co. and president...
Ferber is out of place in the list of five. All the other men--including Mitchell Goodman, a New York author, and Marcus Raskin, co-director of Washington's Institute for Policy Studies--are charged with sponsoring the nation-wide draft resistance program. Ferber isn't. All the other men, are ineligible for the draft; Ferber is the only one who is draft eligible and has turned in his card...