Word: chairman
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Though the Commission rejected Cook's motion for broader representation, Chairman Charles W. Greenough said he would request the arts center to set up a "theatre advisory group" including representatives of Group 20, the Poets' Theatre, the Brattle Theatre, and other such groups in the Boston area...
...State Department, the meeting with Fulbright is viewed as having more than ordinary importance because it constitutes Dulles' first move to set up a close working relationship with the incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...missile race, is heading toward a disastrous missile gap in the 1960s, and is foolishly placing a balanced budget above adequate military defenses. Last week, at long last, Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, backed by "the best intelligence there is," rose to the challenge. With General Nathan Twining, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, McElroy went over to the Capitol to set the facts before the Senate Armed Services Committee, chaired by Georgia's Richard Russell. McElroy's theme: There is no missile gap. Points...
VIRGINIA'S HOWARD WORTH SMITH. 75, is the chairman of the House Rules Committee, which must pass on all legislation except appropriations bills. Rules can bottle up a bill or define the terms of its floor consideration, e.g., by setting the time limits on debate, by deciding whether amendments may be made from the floor. Such a power position is made to order for lanky (6 ft. 160 lbs.), courtly Howard Smith, possessor of the bushiest eyebrows south of John L. Lewis. A Byrd organization Democrat, he is the recognized leader of House Southern conservatives, uses his committee to fight...
...former Ambassador to Russia, who is now a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, will stay in Cambridge for about a month at the end of the 1960 spring recess, Myron P. Gilmore, chairman of the History Department, disclosed yesterday...