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...have been Chicago Bears Running Back Gale Sayers and Comedian Dick Gregory. The award, presented by Holy Angels' parish in a black area of Chicago's South Side, honors outstanding contributions to the race. The current Black Man of the Month: George O'Hare, a Sears, Roebuck executive who was awarded the plaque for his work with the late Martin Luther King Jr. in Chicago and his efforts to improve education and other conditions in the city's ghettos. The fact that O'Hare is white did not trouble the parish. Said Pastor George Clements...
...building, and the team wasn't quite sure how he had obtained so much power. However, everyone did want to beat Yale. They lost to Yale and all that was left were the Easterns. Usually, anyone who had qualified would get to go, but Ackerman. Watson and Rich Roebuck were left off the traveling list. By now the team was completely split, with Cahalan justifying his position with statements like. "Henry is a world class swimmer and he isn't doing those times now. I just can't have him embarass Harvard at the Easterns." Tim Chetin, Harvard's fastest...
Blond, tan, dimpled and movie-star handsome, Griese, going to work in one of his Sears, Roebuck suits (he does promotion for the company), looks like a beachboy turned junior executive. For him, in fact, preparing for a game is "like a businessman going to a meeting. I have a 9-to-5 job like everyone else," he says. Not quite. When he goes home at night, he often lugs along reels of game film and then spends long hours in his den taking notes by the flickering light. His diligence has paid off in a kind of built...
...Bureau's usefulness as an employment agency is not the only interface between the FBI and the American corporate structure. FBI agents often find lucrative jobs with corporations after leaving the Bureau. Turner reports that certain corporations--such as Sears-Roebuck and the Ford Motor Co.--were know to all agents in the Bureau as good places to apply. Ford employs nearly 30 agents in its central management, dozens more in subsidiaries (not surprisingly, Ford sponsored "The FBI" during its early years on television). The Society of Former Agents of the FBI, an independent alumni organization set up to keep...
...profit, black is here to stay." In Chicago, Barbara Proctor, president and owner of Proctor and Gardner Advertising Inc., argues that U.S. tastes today originate in the black community, then gradually spread to more affluent whites. She therefore advises her clients-including the Jewel supermarket chain and Sears, Roebuck's local branch-to aim their ads in the Negro-oriented newspaper and radio media not only at black families but also the white students attending colleges in predominantly black communities. The agency's billings this year: almost...