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...Detroit they held the "First Annual Convention on Corporate Responsibility." It was more like a rally than a convention, but it made plain that G.M. was only a test case. Other social critics are entering the proxy wars, notably Saul Alinsky's "Proxies for People," which plans to solicit proxies from foundations, union-welfare funds and other groups and to use them to pressure corporations into more diligently pursuing social goals. Alinsky calls his technique "mass ju-jitsu"; he is so sure of success that he confidently promises future corporate annual meetings will have to be held in Yankee...
...stamp out the world's oldest profession. One reason is that prostitutes' customers, including some of the capital's hordes of visitors, are easy prey to mugging as an unexpected part of their transaction. One common police technique involves male plainclothesmen, who arrest girls who solicit them. For the past three months, Washington has been reversing the process by using three female decoys to catch the male customers...
Inspired, perhaps, by the recent activities of Attorney General John Mitchell's wife Martha, Mrs. John Bell Williams went before the TV cameras in Jackson, Miss., to solicit funds for mental-health programs. "As wife of your Governor," she began, "I am constantly aware of the need for this help...
...Alinsky proposal to help the middle class seize its share of power is Proxies for People, a group that will solicit proxies to be used at stockholders' meetings. This organization would put pressure on corporations to stop polluting the environment or to support such social causes as better mass transportation. If enough concerned stockholders show up at annual meetings, contends Alinsky, corporations will eventually have to rent Yankee Stadium to accommodate them all and will hardly be able to ignore their demands. Proxies for People, he thinks, would restore an "adventure in living to the dead majority, and might...
Pusey's successor will be selected by the seven-man Harvard Corporation, which consists of Pusey, the university treasurer and five fellows. The decision must be approved by the 32 members of the Board of Overseers. Corporation Fellow Francis H. Burr, a Boston lawyer, will solicit suggestions from every segment of the Harvard community -overseers, alumni, faculty, students and perhaps even employees. "The search," he says, "will be as broad as possible and as unstructured as I can make...