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...discrimination by employers, employment agencies and unions that affect interstate commerce. But the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which is supposed to enforce the law, has no power to bring suits on its own. Legislation currently pending would change that. "The lack severely handicaps the EEOC," contends Hawaii Congresswoman Patsy Mink. When it cannot get a voluntary change of an apparently discriminatory policy, EEOC must ask the Justice Department to go into court, and it can be turned down. Since 1964, Justice has filed only three sex-discrimination suits-though the Labor Department has prosecuted 330 alleged violations...
...civilization, that he periodically retreats further into the jungle to read philosophy in a native hammock. There are the diamond diggers of Aragarcas, their skin made as hard as aluminum by insect bites, who blow each bonanza on preposterous luxuries sold to them at incredible prices by Levantine traders: mink coats for jungle prostitutes, a Cadillac shipped in pieces and reassembled to run back and forth on 100 yards of pavement...
Moxie and Mink Oil. Only five years ago, Turner gave up selling sewing machines to poor Southern rural blacks and became a distributor for a small cosmetics concern, but he soon wound up broke. He then got a $5,000 bank loan and started his own cosmetics firm, Koscot Interplanetary Inc., in Orlando, Fla. Even before he had a product, Turner had a small staff out recruiting distributors, who were asked to advance up to $5,000 to get in on the ground floor of a great proposition. Amazingly, the recruiters found people willing to pay. The money began...
...serious payola. Still, there was something a little tasteless about the Governors of the nation's poorest region consenting to accept such material favors. Perhaps it could have been worse. "One year, in another state," said an aide to Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, "all the wives were given mink coats. That may have been a bit much...
...Ronald Reagan. De Antonio is also shrewd enough to know when Nixon is his own worst enemy, and he devotes a long section of Millhouse to the Checkers speech alone. Reciting his list of assets, attempting to sound humble and folksy (''Pat doesn't have a mink coat, but she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat"), all the while struggling grimly to look natural, Nixon seems to emerge as the kind of bunko artist of whom W.C. Fields always ran afoul...