Word: politicians
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...senior year just one credit short of graduation and could have loafed. He didn't. "I like to catch the kids who are ahead of me," he says. He already has his lifetime vocational goals outlined. Successively, he hopes to be a professional basketball player, journalist, dancer, politician and actor. His intention, he says, is "to be a complete...
Discounting the Drop. Many an economist, businessman and politician, though heartened by the figures, still had to be shown. But not the stock mar ket. Investors have largely discounted falling profits; no sooner did Chrysler Corp. announce a 71% drop in earnings than Chrysler stock went up. What interests the market now is the general economic outlook. On Administration reassurances that it is going to get better, the Dow-Jones industrial average rose for seven straight trading sessions, closed last week...
Congressman John Conyers Jr. of Detroit faced the most important political decision of his career early this year. Since he was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1964, Conyers had been considered the heir apparent to Adam Clayton Powell as the nation's leading Negro Democratic politician. Now he was asked to join the nine-man committee set up to examine Powell's sins and recommend whether the Harlem leader should be seated. Conyers knew that Congress was in a nasty mood over Powell's behavior -- indignant over Powell's bravado and scared over increasingly widespread feeling that...
Part of this was undoubtedly due to the fact that Conyers is one of the few Negroes in high political office who does not dress like a Wall St. lawyer -- he is a Negro politician, not a successful politician from an area where it is advantageous to be a Negro. More important, he came to Harvard's Negroes to listen first and talk later. As one member of AAAAS remarked, "He's an unassuming, very approachable guy, easy in conversation, and really concerned. He sees politics as affecting the daily life of the people -- not as an end in itself...
...term Congressman, it is astonishing that Conyers has been able to project a national image for himself. Essentially, he is a "bread-and-butter" man; his main concern is with improving the economic lot of the nation's Negro. He is more publicly interested in the matters politicians deal with -- poverty programs and Negro bloc voting power -- than he is with "blank consciousness." Yet his personality and intellect are such that he has not shut himself off from the more alienated part of the Negro population. An elected official, Conyers must be concerned with political -- and economic -- power...