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After a complicated civil trial, lawyers expect to spend anxious months waiting for the judge's decision. But attorneys at the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund think matters have gone to weird lengths in the case of Storage Handler William English and other black employees of the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad. Their employment-discrimination suit-raising issues of promotion and seniority-was filed in 1969. The trial did not begin until January 1973. Then Georgia Federal Judge Alexander A. Lawrence set about pondering his decision. Now, two years and five months later, he is still pondering...
...Lawrence has not ruled by then, his opinion will have been pending for nearly three years. Since the trial, Seaboard has changed many of its practices under challenge. Still, for William English, and his coworkers, a final answer remains years down the line. If Lawrence some day finds they were victims of illegal discrimination and if that finding survives appeals, then it will be necessary to go back to trial on the issue of damages. And presiding over that trial-if everyone lives that long-will once again be the reluctant Judge Lawrence...
Under Scrutiny. Consisting of New England Petroleum Corp. and some 40 affiliates, Carey's company supplies oil to New York State utilities and others along the Eastern seaboard. It also explores in the North Sea, pumps crude in Abu Dhabi, refines in the Bahamas, ships round the world by tanker, truck and pipeline, and owns storage terminals with a capacity of 25 million bbl. Most of the Carey Corp.'s business is with industrial customers. But a subsidiary, Burns Bros., supplies heating oil to New York metropolitan-area homes. In Canada, the group's Caloil affiliate sells...
...programs sounded pretty much like a philosophy of total altruism and good citizenship--a kind of tutoring service for policymakers and a chance for freshmen midwestern senators and young eastern seaboard congressmen to dig into off-shore drilling and farm price support case studies for a small admission...
...novel is carefully framed between 1902 and 1917, surrounding the robust, unambiguous patriotism of Teddy Roosevelt and the complex, brooding morality of Woodrow Wilson. It was Winslow Homer time, when, as Doctorow writes, "a certain light was still available along the Eastern seaboard." Eccentrics still putter in their garages and produce inventions without the aid of research-and-development bureaucracies. Henry Ford's new assembly line and Albert Einstein's peculiar idea that the universe is curved crack the dawn of the modern age. Before long, Doctorow notes, painters in Paris will be putting two eyes...