Word: chairmanship
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...political world, White was also a founder of the "Draft Goldwater" movement. Since then he has put his special talents for cajolery-and political arm twisting-to work at G.O.P. state conventions. Persistent rumors have it that White's reward if Goldwater is nominated will be the chairmanship of the G.O.P. National Committee, succeeding fellow New Yorker William Miller...
General Earle Gilmore Wheeler, 56, new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, moves up from Army Chief of Staff. Wheeler's appointment is another break in the tradition of rotating the Joint Chiefs' chairmanship among the three services. This happened partly by a process of elimination. Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay, 57, is scheduled to retire next February. The Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral David McDonald, 57, has been on the job only since last August, is still learning the ropes. That left "Bus" Wheeler for the top service job-which suited Defense Secretary Robert...
...gubernatorial nominee, Percy could have expected to be chairman of the Illinois delegation to the national convention. But he knew he faced opposition from the Goldwater camp, and he didn't particularly want the chairmanship anyway; as chairman, he would be required to announce the convention vote of the heavily Goldwater delegation, thereby apparently identifying himself with Goldwater in the flood lights of national television...
MANHATTAN'S Kendrick R. Wilson Jr., 51, last week was something like a Tiffany manager moving into a ten-cent store. A financier who was trained at U.S. Trust Co. and Lehman Bros, before he rose to the chairmanship of widely diversified Avco Corp., he agreed to a deal by which Avco would acquire a small-loan company, Canada's Delta Acceptance Corp., for $48 million in stock. The swap is anything but penny ante for Avco, which has been shopping for growth companies in the civilian market to expand its own $514 million volume in missile parts...
...houses his headquarters. Two reporters met him with questions. "Get the hell outa the way," snarled a Buckley henchman. Those words were downright kindly compared with Buckley's own profanity. After 30 years as Congressman from New York's 23rd District, during which he rose to the chairmanship of the pork-barreling House Public Works Committee, Buck ley had just been beaten in his party's primary by a political dude named Jonathan Brewster Bingham...