Word: board
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...principal officers of major business organizations. Together they employ 2,400,000 people and had combined sales in 1968 of more than $55 billion. They went to the Far East as observers eager to sound out Asia's leaders. Led by the publisher, TIME'S delegation included Board Chairman Andrew Heiskell, President James A. Linen, Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan and Managing Editor Henry Grunwald. The tour program was organized by the Time-Life News Service, with Chief of Correspondents Richard Clurman and TIME correspondents in cities along the way acting as guides. The businessmen...
Overdue Measures. "This is what we've been warning people about for months," says Chairman Joseph O'Connell of the National Transportation Safety Board (TIME, May 10). The tiny agency (250 staffers), which has no enforcement power, has been trying to get railroads to adopt long-overdue safety measures. Derailments are the leading cause of train accidents, which increased by 71% between 1961 and 1968. "With the railroads hauling more hazardous materials, the potential for catastrophic accidents bothers the hell out of me," says O'Connell...
This week the Safety Board is investigating a Southern Railway derailment in Laurel, Miss., where 13 tank cars loaded with liquid petroleum gas skipped track and exploded. Ten square blocks of Laurel were set afire and two of the townfolk were killed...
...convert much of its Watts right-of-way to industrial usage. The Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration joined the act by forming the nonprofit Economic Resources Corporation to acquire additional land and run the park. Headed by an aggressive Negro entrepreneur named Richard Allen, ERC's board includes eight other Los Angeles businessmen, one of them black...
...regular staffers and 56 volunteer lawyers who spend their weekends hearing complaints in ghetto offices. They are responsible for seeing each case through, even if they must work on it during the regular work week. Their employers do not seem to mind. In fact, the society's board of directors is composed mostly of senior lawyers from the volunteers' firms...