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With a rich baritone voice that seemed destined to command, an imperturbability under fire, a refusal to bend with the times or the fashions, A. Philip Randolph overcame opposition simply by being himself. The first national labor leader among American blacks, he forged the Pullman porters into a powerful union and pushed two Presidents into conceding crucial rights by threatening a march on Washington and resistance to the draft. Relatively inactive for many years before his death at 90 last week in Manhattan, Randolph seemed remote and perhaps irrelevant to younger civil rights leaders, but there are scarcely any nonviolent...
Well, not entirely. By 4:30 the first evening, the Pullman Trailmobile thé dansant for 4,000 was in full swing. Thereafter came such perennial draws as the Fruehauf Corp.'s mighty two-night bash, for which they trucked in Count Basie and band, as well as a disco combo, plus dance instructors to help unlimber the foxtrot generation; Thermo King's "Saloon," featuring the Great Jubilee Banjo Band and drawings for a radio-controlled miniature tractor-trailer for someone's lucky kid; and, of course, Mack Trucks' elegant soirée in the Trianon...
...memo, which was quickly leaked, to the budget cut ters at the Office of Management and Budget, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Patricia Harris, 54. the Illinois-born Pullman-car waiter's daughter who is the only black in the Cabinet, heatedly complained that the ceiling proposed by the OMB on her department's budget (currently $9.1 billion) was "barely defensible." If OMB had its way, she asserted, the subsidized housing program in the 1980 budget would not only be "socially regressive" but "unprecedentedly low" in comparison with previous Democratic and even Republican programs. It would...
...cars, including four coaches, five sleepers and a lounge car with a master suite that boasts the only permanent rolling shower bath on American rails. In Atlanta in the morning, the overnight diner is replaced with a clean car, another crew, and a whole new cast of Pullman porters...
...chef who takes over in Atlanta confides that he is "25 years, six months and five days old." Not that the old guard has changed entirely. Grizzled Luther King, the black sleeping-car porter who replaces Fox in Atlanta, is a kindly, dignified gentleman, typical of the old Pullman employee. He has worked the rails since 1942, when he made $150 a month; now he makes a guaranteed $11,000 a year. Still he has to be away from home five days each week...