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Black demonstrations took place throughout the University in 1969-70. In December, 91 students from the Organization for Black Unity, a University-wide umbrella organization for Black students, occupied the Faculty Club and University Hall. They demanded equal pay for workers, and a 20 percent quota for minority construction workers...
...catch the train to his home on New York's Long Island, where he worked mornings and weekends at his 27-year-old Royal 440 manual typewriter, turning out books at the rate of two pages a day. (He once broke off in mid-sentence after reaching that quota.) Otto's contributions to Time went beyond his muscular prose. A patient, sometimes acerbic and always inspiring mentor, Otto set standards of excellence for the magazine. "If you're lucky," says senior editor Nancy Gibbs, "you find one teacher like that in a lifetime." When a correspondent's interviews with celebrities...
...Affirmative action makes all the country a quota," he said. "It's wrong to ask people 'what color is your teacher?' We're all one society...
...talk the talk, but if you don't add the quota, it won't happen," Harris said...
...make a dent without increased efforts," said Henrietta A. Davis. "We haven't done as well as we hoped in hiring. But I'm not in favor of the quota; it's much too constraining...