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...reason was given for the resignation, although Litchfield, 51, is still recuperating from a heart attack and is under doctors' orders to reduce his work load (among his other jobs: chairmanship of the S.C.M. Corp., formerly Smith Corona Marchant). Litchfield leaves with the legislature still debating whether to put privately endowed Pitt under state control and with trustees divided as to what he has actually accomplished. Banker Frank Denton brusquely dismissed his plans as "pipe dreams." But Trustee Chairman Gwilym Price, accepting the resignation, wrote Litchfield: "You have done more for the University of Pittsburgh in a decade than...
...only turned down the proposal, but told the lines that they are in an excellent position now to reduce fares. This was the board's first significant pronouncement under Lawyer Charles S. Murphy, 55, former Under Secretary of Agriculture, who stepped up to the CAB chairmanship last April after 28 years' experience in Government jobs-and no experience to speak of in airline affairs...
...Senate, even if it means contesting his old friend and former colleague, Democratic Incumbent Carl Hayden, now 87 and, with 38 years on the job, the Senate's senior member. Two days later, Barry had another announcement to make. He was, he said, accepting the honorary chairmanship of a brand-new national organization called the Free Society Association. Its aim: to launch a "crusade of political education" about Goldwater-type conservatism. Said Barry: "We feel there are millions of people who don't understand what we conservatives are talking about...
After huddling secretly for two days, the generals called in Quat, Suu and the legislature for a marathon harangue. For three hours, under Suu's nominal chairmanship, nearly every important figure in South Viet Nam's political and military life argued, discussed, sulked, threatened and cajoled in an attempt to resolve the crisis. "If the Premier can't even name two ministers to his Cabinet," raged one of them, "he certainly can't hope to run the government." Quat could only concur. Angrily, the generals reminded the politicians of the heavy losses that their troops...
...responsibilities will be the chairmanship of the Fulbright Commission in France, which directs the program of official exchanges between the U.S. and France...