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With a rich baritone voice that seemed destined to command, an imperturbability under fire, a refusal to bend with the times or the fashions, A. Philip Randolph overcame opposition simply by being himself. The first national labor leader among American blacks, he forged the Pullman porters into a powerful union and pushed two Presidents into conceding crucial rights by threatening a march on Washington and resistance to the draft. Relatively inactive for many years before his death at 90 last week in Manhattan, Randolph seemed remote and perhaps irrelevant to younger civil rights leaders, but there are scarcely any nonviolent...
...commando bases. On Wednesday when a band of Palestinian guerrillas tried to cross the border and raid a kibbutz, the Israeli army was waiting. It intercepted the Palestinians, captured one guerrilla and chased the others back into Lebanon. Then, with the support of its Lebanese Christian allies under the command of Major Sa'ad Haddad, an Israeli force of at least 400 pushed four miles into Lebanese territory until it ran head-on into United Nations peace-keeping forces and was made to withdraw...
...public trial of one of the upper chamber's own members. And in this case, one of its most powerful members: Democrat Herman Eugene Talmadge, 65, Senator from Georgia since 1957; seventh in seniority among all 100 Senators; chairman of the powerful Agriculture Committee and second in command on the tax-writing Finance Committee; dynastic political leader of his home state for decades. Last week the six-member Senate Ethics Committee began hearing testimony on five charges of financial misconduct against Talmadge. If the committee finds Talmadge culpable, it could recommend to the full Senate that he be stripped...
...first jobs undertaken by Jane Cahill Pfeiffer when she arrived last fall as NBC's new chairman, Silverman's second in command, was to get to the bottom of the scandal. The former IBM vice president has also stepped on toes trying to straighten out the network's tangled management structure. Said one executive: "She has a Mother Superior complex." Chipped in another: "I understand that at IBM they don't fire people, they just reorganize in such a way as to drive someone out. That is exactly what is going on here...
Halberstam's basic problem in writing about media power comes down to his extravagant hyperbole of language, which, time and again, overwhelms his command of narrative and the telling (and telling, and telling) anecdote. In the relatively unploughed terrain of Los Angeles Times history (the most interesting parts of the book), Halberstam details how the unscrupulous Harry Chandler in the 1880s hooked and crooked his way to control over subscription lists for L.A.'s three morning dailies. Then, by combining forces with one of them, Gen. Harrison Gray Otis's Times, Chandler forced the Times's main competitor...