Word: chairman
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...Republican Robert Griffin. In an advance nosecount, the coalition could only muster 209 votes for Landrum-Griffin-ten short of the 219 needed to win. Results:1) the President decided to take to TV to demand reform of labor inequities-"a national disgrace," and 2) Virginia Democrat Howard Smith, Chairman of the Rules Committee, stalled the mild Elliott bill just long enough so that the President could make his speech, and public reaction could pile up before floor debate begins this week...
...Britain and the U.S. When he returned to liberated Paris in 1944, he recalls, "I did not expect to be praised, but at least to be noticed." In a way he was: he was summoned before France's National Committee of Liberation and denounced by its Communist chairman as a traitor and a Fascist who had betrayed the Resistance and obstructed liberation. Says Soustelle: "It was like a Moscow trial. I realized that if the Communists came to power, they would shoot...
Elder Statesman Herbert Hoover, clear-eyed, poker-backed and 85 this week, returned to New York City from San Francisco to celebrate his birthday and catch up on his awesome workload (writing four books, answering scores of letters, being chairman of the Boys Clubs of America). That afternoon he went to Yankee Stadium to toss in the first ball in a nostalgic two-inning game between Yankee oldtimers and their erstwhile opponents from the National League foes...
Tepee has nothing to do with Indians, merely stands for the initials of "Thaler's Project." The physicist more or less backed into long-range detection through his involvement in nuclear testing: now director of the field projects branch of the Office of Naval Research and chairman of the Navy's special weapons effects planning group, he has watched almost every U.S. nuclear test explosion in the past ten years...
Which are the most memorable and effective ads of recent times? Last week Fairfax Mastick Cone, 56, executive committee chairman of Foote, Cone & Belding (annual billings: more than $100 million), listed his favorites of the past decade, limiting the field to magazine ads (he considers them the most demanding) and excluding his agency's campaigns.*"Fax" Cone...