Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jean S. Boggs. professor of Fine Arts, will leave Harvard in January to become director of the Philadelphia Art Museum...
...central banks. A refugee from Germany, he lived through insane inflation there in the 1920s; he likes to tell of the day that his mother handed him a billion-mark bill so that he could buy a ticket to a swimming pool. Stephen S. Gardner, a former chairman of Philadelphia's Girard Trust Bank, is an economic moderate, and Philip Coldwell, once head of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, is a hardline conservative who considered Arthur Burns too liberal. Philip Jackson, an Alabama mortgage banker, is noted more for his hunting prowess than his impact on policy...
...have a none-too-subtle tilt to the left, which results in putdowns of most of the U.S. Cardinals. John Carberry of St. Louis is "threatened by a world he does not understand." Terence Cooke of New York is "untouched by theology or other theoretical influences." John Krol of Philadelphia and the Vatican's John Wright are both "princely" and "authoritarian." The ideological bias flaws judgment in some instances. It is dubious whether Belgium's Leo Jozef Suenens was the non-Italian "front runner in the early 1970s" or that another liberal, Holland's Bernard Alfrink, will...
...first orders requiring minority hiring goals to remedy discrimination involved the all-white Philadelphia construction trades. In 1969 the U.S. Labor Department established the "Philadelphia Plan," which provided for goals and timetables in minority recruitment in the Philadelphia building trades. The Contractors Association of Eastern Pennsylvania sued, charging that the plan was an unconstitutional quota system and that it violated the Title VII ban on discriminatory hiring. Not so, ruled the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in 1971, upholding the President's power to attack discrimination through use of preferential remedies. "Clearly the Philadelphia Plan is color-conscious," wrote...
Other editors feel bound to run a writer's column completely or not at all, but they too pick and choose. "You get a little flak from older readers who want to read the same columnists every time," says Edwin Guthman, editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, "but we pick the four best things every day. One of the problems is that so many write about the same thing." Adds Anthony Day, editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times: "We go by interest and topicality, not by name...