Word: owners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...date only one arrest has been made: a restaurant owner who refused to limit his hours or turn down his thermostat. Cops cannot barge into any homes without a warrant, but Byrne's plan seems to be working. Says Sergeant Charles Clayton of the Bridgeton police: "These people lead real easy...
...days in a Ramada Inn. In the area as a whole, however, the crisis has heightened rather than eased the traditional tensions between growers and workers. Florida Governor Reubin Askew's success in getting Carter to declare the region a disaster area is resented by the owners in conservative Lake and Orange counties-both of which voted for Gerald Ford in November. They are afraid that the federal funds will go mostly to pickers in the form of unemployment compensation, claiming that many workers will stop picking once the pay is available. "With your citrus worker...
...Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, observes: "When you see Leslie Uggams and her long polished nails, you just have to laugh." Although Cruse liked Roots, he thought "the ending was contrived, commercialized and romanticized. For one thing, under those conditions, you don't just tie up a plantation owner to a tree and then get into a wagon and casually drive away as if there weren't bloodhounds and night riders who would track you down...
Katharine Graham resents being labeled the most powerful woman in publishing. "That's a sexist term, and I really dislike it," she says. Still, what else is there to call her? As chairman and principal owner of the Washington Post Co., she controls a $370 million communications empire that includes the Washington Post (see following story), the Trenton Times, Newsweek, five broadcast stations and 49% of a paper mill. The crowned heads of journalism and Government gather at her Georgetown home, weekend invitations to her Marshall, Va., farm are almost as prized as summonses to Camp David...
...California restaurant owner complained of a 40% drop in business. At a Harlem tavern in New York City, patrons insisted that the jukebox be turned off while they discussed the TV program they had just watched; in Los Angeles, the owner of one discotheque closed down operations altogether. The reason: last week's twelve-hour dramatization of Alex Haley's book Roots...