Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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enlarge GM's Board of Directors from 24 to 27 seats, adding three representatives of the public. The group's candidates are Betty Furness, PresidentJohnson's special assistant for consumer interests: Rene Dubos, a University of Chicago biologist and environmentalist: and the Rev, Channing Phillips, a Washington, D.C. civil rights leader
Under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and several Executive Orders, the companies are required to report their minority hiring records to the Federal government it they hold Federal contracts of a certain size. Mississippi P and L, for example, has a $706,000 Defense Department contract for work at the Biloxi. Miss. Ajr Force base...
...Several other groups, however-including the Mississippi Council on Human Relations, the NAACP, and the Southern Regional Council-have been conducting their own studies of the company. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights-an independent Federal agency-also recently concluded an investigation. Commission spokesmen said yesterday that final results would not be available until next week, but that the study revealed "serious problems of discrimination...
...agent of the Southern Regional Council, who asked not to be identified, said yesterday in Atlanta that Harvard's interest in the company was fairly common knowledge among civil rights workers in the South, "I think most people realize that Miss. P and L is outside-owned, Harvard-owned," he said...
...been influenced by Yeats or Rilke." About Yeats he does not talk. "I can't really speak objectively about Yeats, because I think he had a bad influence on me," he said. "Too loud a rhetoric." Although both Eliot and Yeats took the "other side" in the Spanish Civil War-Eliot being somewhat uninterested, Yeats leaning toward the reactionary position-the political deviance of the two great poets of the time was over-looked by the young activists. "We knew they were wrong," Auden recalled, "but we didn't hate them...