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What will President Georges Pompidou do if the Gaullists win next month's parliamentary elections? According to one highly imaginative scenario that political observers in Paris are currently debating, his first step will be to sack lackluster Premier Pierre Messmer, 56, and appoint in his stead Minister of Finance Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 47. As it happens, the suave, non-Gaullist Giscard is regarded as Pompidou's arch rival for the 1976 presidential elections. Last week he came in a close second to former Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas in a nationwide popularity poll...
...else the President could on his own appoint Kissinger to a University Professorship, much in the same way that President Pusey brought former U.S. Ambassador Edwin O. Reischauer back to Harvard after an overdue leave of absence...
...Council's resolutions urge the CRR to "continue the improvement" in its procedures, appoint CRR factfinding officers, and, withhold accused students's degrees until students are "restored to good standing...
President had refused to appoint Czar Reed's candidate for collector of customs in Portland, Maine...
...whose eyes are too close to his nose") and sometimes pungent (he would keep J. Edgar Hoover, said Johnson, because "I'd rather have him inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in"). His storytelling was legendary. One of his own favorites: "I decided to appoint Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court, and so I called him into my office. I told him, Thurgood, I know this will surprise you and please you, but you're the best I can think of, and I'm also delighted that I will have the chance to place...