Word: steps
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...step-grandson of Albert Warner, one of the founders of Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., Steel went to Harvard and later was first in his class at New York Law School. He does not really need the $10,500-a-year job at the N.A.A.C.P., but he likes the work. In his four years with the association, Steel has tried more than 75 cases across the country and has won a number of them...
...courts and enjoy other constitutional rights. In Steel's opinion, it is wrong to answer that the court has set the pace of racial progress for the rest of the Government. Instead, he contends, "a cautious Supreme Court has waltzed to the music of the white majority-one step forward, one step backward, sidestep, sidestep...
...problems of portrayal is what Negro Actor Robert Hooks calls the "copout: Put the Negroes in the background-blurred and slightly out of focus-and show them for just a split second." Indeed, despite the trend toward integrated ads, the agencies are often too reluctant to let the Negro step front and center. In one study of 8,279 ads shown over a three-week period late last year, only 199 contained nonwhite performers, and of that number just 16 had lead or speaking roles. By showing a few black faces on the fringe of a party scene, says Urban...
...latest step in that direction is a proposed merger with New York-based St. Regis Paper Co., a deal that has already brought RCA plenty of static from Wall Street analysts. The get-together, involving $630 million in RCA stock, was negotiated by Bob Sarnoff and St. Regis' longtime chairman, Roy K. Ferguson, 74, but still must be approved by directors and shareholders of both companies. If it goes through, the acquisition of the $721.7 million-a-year paper company would put RCA, the 27th largest U.S. firm, as recently as four years ago, within striking distance...
...spokesmen termed the HUC recommendation "a step in the right direction, but not enough." While HUC based its objection on the fact that ROTC instructors are working for the government, SDS denies that is the relevant moral issue, or that removal of credit would cleanse the university of responsibility...