Word: ashes
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Nixon's Cabinet plans are the most drastic ever proposed for the Executive department, and stem largely from a study commission headed by Business Executive Roy L. Ash and refined by the White House staff. They have the same positive intent as those of the Hoover Commission in 1947: to make the proliferating federal bureaucracy more responsive to the presidential will by merging many small agencies under a few broad ones. Nixon said his purpose is to "match our structure to our purposes...
...that dauntless band of early settlers. On the 350th anniversary observance last week, the Rev. Billy Graham praised the faith of the founding fathers and warned: "Anything less than this will let us down and we will continue on the toboggan slide that will take us to the ash heaps of history." Alas, one of the modern-day Pilgrims thereupon took a pratfall into Plymouth Bay as he tried to step ashore...
...Trouble. The President has been courting Connally throughout his term. Connally served on the Ash commission on White House organization, which led to the creation of an Office of Management and Budget. Nixon also named him to the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Connally has found himself on the receiving end of numerous presidential summonses to stop by and chat. Mainly, Nixon used Connally as a sounding board on economic policy. The big Nixon pitch to Connally, ten days before the appointment was announced, came during a White House tête-à-tête. "I recognize...
Christmas Tirade. The ash-blonde, blue-eyed bureaucrat has found a new crusade. Having spent 15 years in her present civil service rank, G.S. 17, she has decided that she should be promoted to the highest grade, G.S. 18. Money is hardly the consideration, since the change would add only $695 to her current salary of $34,810. Besides, she is married to Millionaire Wayne Parrish, a former publisher. She says she would donate any salary increase to the Washington Animal Rescue League. "I'm fighting for a principle," she says. "Not so much for what it will...
...REUNIONITES stroll through the Coop looking for souvenirs of college days, they will find the usual assortment of Harvard mugs, Harvard scarves, Harvard ties, ash frays, key rings, chairs, lamps, skivvies, garters, diapers, playing cards, glasses, pencils, cigarette lighters, and cocktail shakers. This year, there is also a large assortment of new Harvard books-books by undergraduates and alumni that purport to tell something about the Harvard and American Youth of today...