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...business establishment feel that many of Soglin's committee appointees lack the expertise needed to deal with municipal problems. "These are a lot of people who have been in the stands watching but who haven't had a chance to play the game," says Robert Brennan, a former University of Wisconsin track coach and head of the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce, who has been working to bridge the gap between Soglin and the businessmen...
Justice William Brennan saw just such a requirement. In his dissenting opinion, he accused California of creating "a double standard for disability compensation" by excluding "a gender-linked disability peculiar to women" while conferring full benefits for such classic male disabilities as prostatectomies and circumcision. The economic effects of pregnancy, wrote Brennan, are "functionally indistinguishable from the effects caused by any other disability." By Brennan's standards, California's compensation law is a clear case of sex discrimination...
...California Standard subsidiary, Western Operations, Inc., of discharging the 160 employees solely because of their ages during a three-year period that ended Dec. 31, 1973. Company officials contended that they had done nothing wrong but chose to sign a consent order rather than fight. Labor Secretary Peter Brennan, 56, hailed the scope of the settlement, which covers workers in eight Western states whose former jobs ranged from assistant service-station manager to executives; some earned about $40,000 a year. Individual awards to the employees will run from just under $10,000 to more than $50,000. Those figures...
...robbers moved out of the bank, one of them-police believe it was DeFreeze-theatrically and unnecessarily opened fire through the bank's glass door. The bullets hit two men passing by outside, Peter Markoff, 59, and Eugene Brennan, 70, and both received severe stomach wounds. Once outside the bank, DeFreeze fired again, at Pharmacist Ken Outlander, 62, but missed. The bandits raced away in the station wagon, their escape covered by the four accomplices in the Hornet. Police and FBI agents could not identify the four people?either four men or three men and a woman?but believed that...
...Osborne about who would be in any future Ford Administration Cabinet. While admitting the article's accuracy, Ford said that he thought the conversation was off the record. Ford would keep Henry Kissinger as Secretary of State, according to Osborne. He would also retain Secretary of Labor Peter Brennan, Interior Secretary Rogers Morton and HUD Secretary James Lynn. He is undecided about others, especially Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger. Ford fears that Schlesinger would not be effective in dealing with Congress...