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...conference in Atlanta last fall, the Urban League's Whitney Young and Newark Poet Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones), once far apart in their approach to the black push for equality, found themselves in agreement that the key to quick progress lay in the election of as many blacks as possible to political office-that is, access to political power. The results of that thrust have already begun to show. The House of Representatives now has twelve black members v. nine in the 91st Congress, still a tiny number, but not negligible; the twelve boycotted the President...
...than in Marin, who had not. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Marin's birth in 1870, the Los Angeles County Museum has assembled a full-dress retrospective of his work (more than 150 oils, watercolors and drawings), which opens this week at New York's Whitney Museum. It offers fresh insights on this persistently underrated artist...
...President had good reason to feel optimistic about industry's antipollution efforts last week as he stood on the White House lawn watching two TWA jets take off from Washington National Airport. As a Chicago-bound 727 soared over the Potomac, the ship's Pratt & Whitney engines gushed black smoke, smearing the blue sky like a grease pencil. Two minutes later an Indianapolis-bound 727 with the same type of engines followed suit-but without trailing any visible wake. "That's quite a difference," Nixon beamed to TWA Chairman Charles C. Tillinghast Jr. standing beside him. "That...
Actually, the secret was that Rolls had been unrealistic enough to become a sitting duck. In its eagerness to underbid its U.S. competitors (General Electric and Pratt & Whitney), Rolls accepted a fixed price for an engine that demanded technological breakthroughs to produce-and this in an inflationary age. It also committed itself to deliver all the engines by November 1971 or pay stiff penalties. The penalty provisions have never been disclosed, but are believed to oblige Rolls to pay up to $300 million -more than 60% of its last reported net worth. Presumably, the penalties rise as deliveries become later...
When John M. Burns III left his job in a Wall Street law firm last summer, his future gleamed. At 37, he was the hand-picked executive assistant to a close friend, Whitney North Seymour Jr., the Nixon Administration's U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. In the six months that followed, Lawyer Burns became the Government's most successful prosecutor of water polluters. This should have delighted both Seymour and the White House, which crusades for a cleaner environment. Yet a fortnight ago, Seymour fired Burns...