Word: chairman
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Scott, who served as G.O.P. national chairman from 1948 to 1949, had been in Congress since 1941-except for two years after he lost an election-and in the Senate since 1959. Baker came to the Hill only in 1967, after he was elected Senator. Another element favoring Scott was the fact that his elevation would leave open the whip's post, which was coveted by several of his colleagues. "I got hit," said Baker afterward, "by a double bugaboo-the seniority system and the proliferation of whip candidates." Scott won by 24 to 19-the precise vote...
...week was elevated from the vice-presidency to the post left vacant by Ho's death in September. Thang's accession to the presidency confirmed that none of the four real rivals for Ho's mantle - Premier Pham Van Dong, Party Boss Le Duan, National Assembly Chairman Truong Chinh and Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap - are yet strong enough to claim it for themselves...
...frequent, and there are reports that the Panchen Lama, once considered a willing tool of Peking, has escaped from prison. In Szechwan, one of China's rice bowls, an armed group calling itself the "Red Worker-Peasant Guerrilla Column" is said to be roaming the hills. In Hunan, Chairman Mao's home province, authorities complain that "the trend of anarchism ran rampant" all last summer. In Kiangsu, Maoist cultural cadres are vociferously denouncing "rock-'n'-roll crazy dances and vulgar and revolting actions in some so-called revolutionary dances...
Many members of China's younger generation seem disaffected-some because they want no part of Maoist puritanism and idealism, others because they feel that the Chairman has not gone far enough in his efforts to regenerate the revolution. Indeed, throughout the population, the Cultural Revolution seriously undermined respect for authority. Abroad, China's position is not much better. Peking has lost much face in Asia and Africa. Once the Third World carefully watched the competition between India and China. India still has trouble aplenty, but economic planners no longer seriously consider the "Chinese model." Albania is China...
...executive, but the trick is to pick the right one. C. Richard Johnston and Lawrence K. Shinoda thought that they had done so last year when they followed their boss, Semon E. ("Bunkie") Knudsen, from General Motors to Ford, where Knudsen had become president. Three weeks ago, Chairman Henry Ford II fired Knudsen, telling him that "things just didn't work out." Last week Johnston, 44, a top salesman whom Knud sen had made marketing manager of the Lincoln-Mercury division, resigned in protest over the dismissal of his chief...