Word: chairman
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...Capitol Hill office last week than an emissary from the Central Intelligence Agency's Director Allen Dulles arrived on the scene. CIA's Dulles wanted to see Humphrey immediately about his 8½-hour Kremlin visit with Nikita Khrushchev. A little later Atomic Energy Commission Chairman John McCone called with an urgent request for an appointment. Humphrey settled by arranging to meet everyone in the office of Under Secretary of State Christian Herter right after his special midafternoon news conference. And that event, as the tumult mounted, was moved from Humphrey's office to the Senate Armed...
...other white witnesses was the man calling their shots. Prompting from a front-row seat was Alabama's attorney general and Governor-elect, John Patterson, 37. Patterson, at hearing's start, had tried to protest federal meddling in state business, had been gaveled into silence by Vice Chairman Robert G. Storey, dean of Southern Methodist University's law school, and principal interrogator for the commission. Thereafter Patterson counseled witnesses into obstinacy...
After eight white witnesses had hedged, Chairman Hannah called a recess, turned the record over to the Justice Department. In a studied display of overnight speed, Federal Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. next day ordered six of the most recalcitrant to testify and produce records at another hearing this week. Alabama-born-and-bred Judge Johnson's threat if they did not: jail terms for contempt of court...
...main speakers at the seminar will be President Emeritus James B. Conant, who will address a general assembly on the topic, "Modern Foreign Languages in the High School Curriculum." According to Miss Marjorie H. Nicholson, chairman of the conference's arrangement committee, Conant's speech is of particular importance because of "the pyramiding belief that the teaching of modern languages is as vital to America's future as the teaching of science...
Foreign Minister Chen Yi notified foreigners that the 65-year-old father of the Red Chinese revolution--though keeping his big job as party chairman--will retire from the party presidency upon expiration of his term in January...