Word: appointing
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...President declared that "the starting point for such efforts is the individual citizen. Law enforcement cannot succeed without the sustained interest of all citizens." Calling for some citizen help, Johnson announced that he will appoint two commissions. One would study crime in the District of Columbia, where serious crimes have increased more than twice as fast as the national rate. The other would conduct "a comprehensive, penetrating analysis of the origins and nature of crime in modern America," and report by mid-1966. Said Johnson: "The staggering cost of inaction makes it imperative that the task be undertaken...
President Kennedy proposed a similar department in 1961 but announced that he would name a Negro to head it; he thereby antagonized many members of Congress, and the House voted the plan down. President Johnson may very well appoint a Negro-Federal Housing Administrator Robert C. Weaver-but he is not particularly advertising the fact, and Congress seems certain to approve the plan...
Speaking to the meeting, H. Reed Ellis '65, former chairman of the HCUA, called free interhouse dining with Radcliffe "the most significant accomplishment of the HCUA last semester" and suggested that the new council immediately appoint a committee to try to insure that the project is continued...
Ellis also suggested that the HUC appoint a committee to try to get parietals hours extended to Saturday nights of football weekends and that more dofinite regulations be set up for college-wide elections...
...students are not satisfied with the status quo, neither is the administration. Case plans to appoint a blue-ribbon committee to reexamine all University policy regarding student publications. This study will give high priority to the problems of responsibility and freedom of the press. Like any large and growing university, B.U. both needs and desires the critical feedback and dialogue that a newspaper uniquely provides. And despite the periodic administrative frowns that a lively free student press draws, the continuing dialogue that it inspires within a university community is, as Yeo himself said, "the essence of University...