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...Wasn't there anyone on your staff who recognized the real outrage in your story-that the state is usurping a natural right of parents to decide how their children should be educated? . . . NEIL MCCAFFREY JR. Pelham Manor...
...walnut-paneled room high in a Chicago office building one morning last week, Fowler McCormick, 52, International Harvester Co.'s chairman and big stockholder, met his board of directors for a showdown. The directors wanted to make President John Lawrence McCaffrey top dog in the company, turn the chairmanship into an advisory post. McCormick opposed the change, but the directors approved it anyway. Promptly McCormick resigned as chairman (but not as a director). For the first time since 1831, when Fowler McCormick's grandfather Cyrus introduced the reaper, the largest U.S. maker of agricultural equipment had no McCormick...
...over the past 2½ years, weakened by an attack of virus pneumonia, McCormick was away from his desk for prolonged periods, missed directors' meetings time & again, left the job-but not the authority-of running the company to McCaffrey. This was presumably the chief reason the directors clipped McCormick of his power. Another reason, according to union gossip: the directors objected to McCormick's too-liberal labor policies. (Even with them, Harvester has been plagued by strikes by its Redline C.I.O. United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers union...
Harvester's new boss, 58-year-old Larry McCaffrey, is a company veteran. The son of a blacksmith, he went to work at 16 at Harvester, rose through the sales department (McCormick was his assistant), was made second vice president and a director after McCormick became president. For years, the "two Macs" worked as a team, and Mac McCaffrey wanted to keep it that way. Said he last week: "I asked [McCormick] to change his mind after the meeting. I will ask him again the first time...
...Burstyn's lawyers went to court. At week's end, State Supreme Court Justice Henry Clay Greenberg threatened a temporary injunction against the edict. "I am concerned," he said, "with whether the commissioner has a right to set himself up as a dictator." At that point, McCaffrey weakened. While waiting for a full hearing this week, he lifted the ban. That evening, any New Yorker with the price of a ticket ($1.50) could see The Miracle and judge for himself whether it was worth all the todo...