Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...produce an acceptable formula. Then, at the urging of federal mediators and a newly formed citizens committee, talks began. They featured an interesting extra ingredient. In the middle of one session, Dr. McCord was summoned to take a telephone call from White House Aide Harry Dent, former Republican chairman of South Carolina. The details of the message were secret, but an agreement was soon reached...
...Chairman Celler, while not opposed to voting-law reform, felt that the Administration's bill was ill-timed. He argued that the existing law should be extended until a more comprehensive -and perhaps controversial-bill like the Administration's could be maneuvered through Congress. The committee's senior Republican, William McCulloch of Ohio, also favors a five-year extension of the 1965 act. So does the N.A.A.C.P.'s Mitchell, who described the Administration's proposal as a "sophisticated, calculated and incredible effort by the chief lawyer of the United States to make it impossible...
...clears the mind." Yet his interest in the arena does not fade when the World Series ends. He likes hockey, and is the kind of fan who practically joins in from his seat. "When he watches a hockey game, he participates as an extrovert would," says Irving Felt, chairman of Madison Square Garden. "Some of the wildest reactions come from people who are not outgoing by nature. Nixon is spontaneous...
...more so. The bust and the strike were lasting cathartic experiences for many--for H. Stuart Hughes as well as for Betsy. When the Faculty convened to debate Afro Studies and consider Alan Heimert's strongly worded resolution, Professor Hughes, two-thirds of the way through his term as chairman of the History Department, rose to defend the sanctity of Faculty control over such matters as curriculum and appointment policy. This was the same H. Stuart Hughes who in 1962 ran for the Senate on a plat-form sufficiently unpopular to garner about 6 per cent of the vote...
...Fifth Avenue and Bergdorf Goodman have recently been forced to retire. Magnin's expansionary plans have the backing of its powerful parent, Federated Department Stores, Inc. whose 97 stores include Filene's in Boston, Foley's in Houston and Bloomingdale's in New York. Federated Chairman Ralph Lazarus, 55, figures that a big acquisition program would stir up the trustbusters, so he aims to double Federated's $1.8 billion in sales over the next decade mainly by internal growth...