Word: butler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dana L. Farnsworth, director of the University Health Services, announced yesterday the appointment of John Butler, Dr. Preston K. Munter, and Dr. Sholem Postal as assistant directors...
...Butler, who will be in charge of financial affairs and non-professional personnel, has served in the Health Services since 1975. Dr. Munter, psychiatrist, will supervise the post-graduate education of the staff and will handle public relations for the Health Services. Dr. Postal, who has been director of the Radcliffe Health Service since 1958, will be responsible for the out-patient clinic...
...will have to grapple with two balky issues: Britain's entry into the Common Market and the future of the Central African Federation. In an ingenious, unprecedented gambit, Prime Minister Macmillan announced last week that he is giving sole responsibility for the federation to Home Secretary R. A. Butler, who is already in charge of Common Market negotiations...
...colonial status (Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland) and generally considered an ally by African nationalists, and Commonwealth Secretary Duncan Sandys, who is responsible for self-governing territories (Southern Rhodesia) and has the ear of Welensky's white supremacists. It was obviously sound to end this two-way pull by putting Butler in charge, even though Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell loudly denounced it as a ''nonsensical gesture." While not a political maneuver, Macmillan's move inevitably enhanced the political prospects of ''Rab" Butler, whose fortunes had seemed on the ebb last fall when Iain Macleod...
...Among them: Poets William Butler Yeats (who was an I.R.A. "morale officer") and Oliver St. John Gogarty; Playwrights Sean O'Casey and Brendan Behan; Novelists Sean O'Faolain, Liam O'Flaherty, Frank O'Connor...