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Part of the mayor's problem has been his inability to appoint top cops who are able to get along with him as well as with their subordinates. Recently, Stokes chose his third police chief and second safety director. The mayor was roundly applauded for picking as safety director retired Air Force Lieut. General Benjamin O. Davis Jr., the highest ranking black military officer in U.S. history. But when Stokes chose as police chief William P. Ellenburg, a retired Detroit inspector with 27 years on the force, he hatched a new controversy...
...Research Policy who voted last December against Harvard's allying itself institutionally with the Cambridge Project, Because of the opposition of some Faculty members to such an alliance, the project's joint Harvard-M. I. T. advisory committee last month withdrew its request to President Pusey that he appoint Harvard representatives to the project's policy board...
Recently a separate group of women faculty members requested that John T. Dunlop, acting dean of the Faculty, appoint a Faculty committee to examine the status of women at Harvard...
...group of Harvard's female faculty members have requested that Dean Dunlop appoint a faculty committee to examine the status of women at Harvard...
...commission. In recent years, innumerable national issues have been handed over to commissions of eminent citizens on the assumption that, if they cannot solve a problem, they can at least talk it to death. Presidents, Governors, mayors-all follow what has become a contemporary political maxim: when in doubt, appoint a commission...