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Still, more and more blacks are entering the news profession, as employment doors that were once closed continue to open. Many blacks suspect that they are hired mainly because publications feel that they need a token Negro or two around. Even when the job opportunity is more genuine, some blacks do not make it because of sheer lack of qualification. Says Edward Bradley of WCBS radio station in New York: "They were looking for black anchormen, black writers, black reporters. They found one reporter-me." Sometimes employers will lower hiring standards for blacks, many of whom lack training simply because...
Help! Early in the week Republican congressional leaders had trooped to the White House to ask for political help -something that would persuade voters that recession was not right around the corner. The President was ready with a shiny token. He would unfreeze $1.5 billion of federal, state and local construction money that he had effectively held up last fall as an anti-inflation move. Congressmen greeted the announcement as political manna. "The problems of inflation have been defeated," said House Republican Leader Gerald Ford. "The danger of recession is nil." His comment was deflated the next day by Arthur...
They did, eventually, but not without a token show of concern for the plight of Sullivan and his football club. They had to. They were among the people who had disapproved of Harvard's refusal to loan its Stadium to the Patriots until a stadium could be built. Harvard was called arrogant, snobbish, and lacking in community interest. The councillors, at least for the record, had to prove that they weren't quite as harsh...
...political situation in Europe. If the Nixon Administration says that it intends to withdraw large numbers of American troops, the U.S. and its NATO allies will lose the opportunity to use those troops as a bargaining counter for comparable force reductions by the Warsaw Pact countries. By the same token, Willy Brandt will not be able to negotiate equitable settlements in Central Europe if the U.S. undercuts his position by withdrawing a large part of its forces. "The Federal Republic is no wanderer between two worlds," Brandt has declared. The implication is that Brandt's chosen world-the West...
...keep no chip of it for token...