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...most interesting and least self-involved actor I've ever talked to. I liked him tremendously." It was almost as if Scott were determined to live up to the nickname that Actress Maureen Stapleton and Director Fielder Cook applied to him in their interviews with Reporter-Researcher Michele Whitney-Big Pussycat...
...material gathered by Cronin, Whitney and others went to Jay Cocks, one of TIME'S cinema critics, who has seen every one of Scott's movies and his recent plays; Cocks wrote the story and Al Marlens edited it. "As far as I'm concerned," says Cronin, whose 50-page file provided the basic ingredients, "we ought to put Scott on both the back and front covers. Then we could do two stories: it would take that much to deal with his complexities...
...Whitney Moore Young Jr. was too sensitive a man to ignore the hurt of being called "Uncle Whitney" or "Whitey Young" by black extremists. Nor did he enjoy being labeled a "moderate," when he felt as angry and as militant about white racism as any of his brothers. Young spent many tortured nights talking out his anguish with close friends. Yet he always concluded that his own popularity was irrelevant to what he felt he could do best to aid black progress: awaken white corporate boardrooms to the economic injustice of discrimination against blacks. When Young, 49, died last week...
...place doing either." Indeed, even some of the most bitter black spokesmen came to warmly appreciate Young. When informed of his death, Poet and Playwright Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) wept. "There is a loss here that a lot of black people aren't aware of," Jones said. "Whitney Young had become a kind of bridge between that part of the community which is activist and that part which is mainstream. He unified all forces...
Beyond negotiating a better deal with the British, Lockheed's choices are limited. It could switch to General Electric or Pratt & Whitney engines for the TriStar, but that, too, would mean delay and additional expense. The other visible alternatives are a shotgun merger or financial collapse...