Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...selected for the Commerce Department: Jane Cahill Pfeiffer, a former IBM vice president. But at the last moment. Pfeiffer told Carter's aides that "personal reasons" precluded her acceptance. One possible woman appointee: Patricia Roberts Harris, a Washington attorney, who could be named Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Two other women were interviewed by Carter for possible Cabinet posts: Joan Manley. Time Inc. vice president and publisher of TIME-LIFE Books, who might be under consideration for Commerce; and Duke University Economist Juanita Kreps, a possibility...
...Justice Department. Despite Young's appointment, blacks were demanding wider representation. As if to prove that he was doing his best to satisfy them, Carter took the unusual step of publicly naming three blacks who had taken themselves out of consideration for various reasons: Vernon Jordan, National Urban League executive director, who said he was too "committed to the black people and the Urban League" to consider a job; Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, who said he was "flattered" but was determined to run for reelection; and Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, who said he thought he could be more...
...REGULATING BUSINESS: "We rely on market incentives to bring us food, shelter and clothing, but abjure the use of incentives when it comes to producing clean air, occupational safety and improvements in urban transportation. We segregate our approaches to social organization into two watertight compartments−command-and-control techniques for public intervention and economic incentives for the private economy. Yet there is a spectrum of alternatives between the two extremes waiting to be created through the public use of private incentives...
...politically divided and dangerously polarized. The conservative Catholic north and the islands of Madeira and the Azores went overwhelmingly to the Social Democrats and the C.D.S., while the agricultural Alentejo region in the south is under the control of the Communists. The Socialists' strength stems primarily from urban areas, where workers' pay and their fringe benefits have been markedly improved...
Whatever the motivation, the Times's allegations struck some sympathetic chords. Mary Ellis Carlton, veteran urban-affairs reporter for the I. PT, agreed that the paper has suppressed many of her reports about city problems; last week she resigned. Some editors at other California papers found the whole affair at least as interesting as dog bites dog, if not man bites dog. Said Sacramento Bee (and former Los Angeles Times) Managing Editor Frank McCulloch: "It's the first indication that we're going to break out of the gentlemen's club and rap each other...