Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Roy Wilkins said that the board was shocked by both "the tone and the substance" of Steel's assertions. "By belittling the decisions of the court," said Wilkins, "and especially by classifying past civil rights victories as symbolic rather than substantive, he cast aspersions on all previous legal efforts in civil rights cases...
Carter's staff had another explanation for the board's action. In their statement, the lawyers claimed that Steel was fired as a rebuff to the legal department, which has lately taken on cases that the board considers too controversial. N.A.A.C.P. lawyers, for example, have sought the release of such "political prisoners" as Martin Sostre, a black nationalist bookseller who was sent to jail on narcotics charges in Buffalo last March. Whatever the board's motives, the N.A.A.C.P. must recruit replacement lawyers without delay. The association is currently involved in some 150 court actions, and although Carter...
DAVID SMITH rejoiced in the clatter of the Iron Age. In his workshop at Bolton Landing, on Lake George in upstate New York, he welded junk steel and polished aluminum into powerful abstractions. Before he was killed in a car crash at the age of 59 in 1965, many critics considered him the most important sculptor working in America. Smith had rarely talked about his work in public, though he often scribbled his thoughts in his notebooks...
Most bankers disavow voracious intentions. They are, after all, sensitive to the popular concern that banks, with their vast resources, could grab too much control over the economy if permitted to do so. "We don't want to go into the steel business," says Chairman George S. Moore of Manhattan's First National City Bank, which recently won approval from Comptroller of the Currency William B. Camp to turn itself into a one-bank holding company...
...heavy industry of the Ruhr built the machines for two world wars and, in more recent years, fueled the post war recovery of West Germany. The Ruhr's steel furnaces and coal pits, eternally enveloped in a grimy grey haze, are still regarded as the foundation of the country's economy. Yet, almost un noticed, the concentration of new German industry has shifted south from the Ruhr to a bucolic land of rolling hills and medieval towns: the state of Baden-Württemberg, between the Rhine and Lake Constance...