Word: chairmanship
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...tung had already discreetly vanished from the public scene by stepping down as head of state-though retaining his all-powerful chairmanship of the Communist Party. This withdrawal by no means meant that Mao was accepting responsibility for the failure of the communes; it was merely the first step in the classic Communist ploy of disengagement from catastrophe. Since it was now obvious that the planners had been right and the sloganeers wrong, reason would suggest that the sloganeers should suffer. But the Communist solution was to purge the most outspoken of the planners; then the party could majestically change...
...Overseers' Committee to visit Harvard College will be here Dec. 11 and 12, under the chairmanship of Albert L. Nickerson '32, who selected General Education as the topic last spring. They will talk with Finley, Paul H. Buck, who was Dean of the Faculty when the program was instituted, and with professors giving some of the big courses...
...Southern Governors' Conference in Nashville, where Tennessee's racially moderate Buford Ellington beat out Arkansas' diehard segregationist Orval Faubus for the chairmanship, a reporter asked South Carolina Governor Ernest Hollings how he felt about N.A.A.C.P. Special Counsel Thurgood Marshall's recent appointment as a federal judge. Replied Hollings resignedly: "I'm just glad Martin Luther King doesn't have a law degree...
...Assembly's Steering Committee, meanwhile, meeting in the Trusteeship Council room under Slim's chairmanship, the regular Assembly business proceeded with the compiling of an agenda. As always, this was of special interest to the small countries that depend on the U.N. for a platform, for protection, and for the heady excitement of sharing in the management of the world. Their resolutions (such as the indignant motion of Yemen, the Sudan, et al. accusing Britain of armed aggression in the little desert sultanate of Oman four years ago) were all over the new agenda. In all, 90 items...
...conservative Harff, or throwing his influence behind Harff to defeat their common liberal enemies. Because using the liberal votes would "discredit" his record, Phillips held to a previous agreement with Harff and threw his weight against Alberg, who was then easily defeated. Once out of the race for the chairmanship, Phillips compromised for an appointment as Director of Liason with Outside Organizations...