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Holcombe was an outspoken critic of the non-posting of available dining hall jobs, which he said permitted favoritism on the part of some managers and discrimination against black and minority workers. The new contract would require the posting of all available jobs for seven days prior to their being filled...
Betty is equally outspoken about the flaws in the Ford campaign. "I don't know who's to blame-maybe the President himself. But they were not organized early enough and were not good enough. In some states we had nothing at all. I would go into some states, like Utah and Arizona, and find zilch. Naturally I found myself very frustrated...
...author, newspaper columnist and Independent, then left-wing Laborite Member of Parliament (1942-75); of an apparent heart attack; in London. An Oxonian, Driberg first became known as "William Hickey," a gossip columnist for Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express (1933-43). As an M.P. he was an outspoken critic of the "mammon imperialists" of Washington and Wall Street. The London Times, in an unusual obituary, noted that Driberg was a homosexual, a fact that he had neither publicized nor sought to hide...
...this country in 1768-despite his wife's fear that America "would be as a sentence of death to her"-Witherspoon might have been expected to cast his sympathies with the mother country. But from the day he first stepped ashore in Philadelphia, he has been an outspoken admirer of things American-particularly of the invigorating climate, the high standard of living available even to small farmers and laborers, and the freedom to travel without molestation by highway men and beggars. Presbyterian church policy discourages ministers from participating in politics, however, so despite his immediate enthusiasm for the Colonies...
Other delegates to the OAS meeting felt that Kissinger had not gone far enough. Among the critics was outspoken Foreign Minister Dudley Thompson of Jamaica, an island nation where there are widespread fears that recent outbreaks of violence involve U.S. efforts to "destabilize" the moderately leftist government. "He didn't go far enough," said Thompson. "Those kind of comments run off Chile's back like water off a duck." More sharply, Thompson wondered how a German-born Jew like Kissinger could not be more sensitive to the brutalities of Pinochet's regime. "That...