Word: seymour
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This editorial will appear in the inaugural issue of the Seymour Society Bulletin...
...shoe industry is doomed," says Seymour Fabric, president of the Southern California Shoe Manufacturers Association. "It's heartbreaking." In Maine, eight shoe factories have closed in the past 18 months, with a loss of about 7,600 jobs. In neighboring New Hampshire, shoemakers employed almost 11,000 workers a decade ago; this year fewer than 7,000 are at work...
...Uninformed rabble-rousing" is useless, says an ally of Kilson, Kenneth D. Johnson '85, vice-president of the Seymour Society, a Black Christian group of which Kilson was one of the initial advisors. Instead, Blacks must work within the system: get a good education, enter the world of white elites, and then build up institutions and networks for Blacks (for instance, establishing chairs in the Afro-American Department or setting up Black scholarship funds...
...Seymour Society's Johnson, who agrees with Kilson on many issues, says he too opposes a Third World Center. "The BSA has no ideology for why it's here...It would not know how to use a center...
Carl Gershman, 41, president of the NED and a former counselor to Jeane Kirkpatrick when she was U.N. Ambassador, seemed to have no mea culpas in mind. Citing the agreement that allowed the NED to "consult" with the IFP, Gershman expressed concern about a number of the selections -- Seymour Hersh's The Price of Power, Jonathan Kwitny's Endless Enemies and Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth -- saying that they reflected the views "of only one segment of the American political spectrum." He asked not that they be withdrawn but that others from a conservative perspective be included...