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...search committee may be facing the same problem that Afro has had to deal with for the last three and a half years: keeping Guinier and the rest of the Faculty happy, all at the same time. Guinier is not looking forward to leaving the chairmanship of Afro, and sources say that he has been trying to get his close friend and associate, historian Hollis Lynch, appointed instead of Blassingame...
...trustee in common: John D. Rockefeller III, 67, who became a collector of Oriental art after a trip to Japan with John Foster Dulles in 1951 and in 1956 founded the Asia Society. Last week it was announced that Rockefeller, in stepping down from the society's chairmanship, had given it his collection and promised to foot the bill for housing it in a new and larger Asia House in Manhattan. Says Rockefeller, "there is a particularly useful role for the small, specialized museum of high quality." Eventually, it is hoped, the expanded Asia House, with its nucleus...
...father of the Abomb. Strauss prevailed, and in dramatic loyalty hearings in 1954, Oppenheimer lost his security clearance. When President Eisenhower nominated Strauss to be Secretary of Commerce in 1959, the Senate voted 49-46 against his confirmation largely because of a politically controversial contract, negotiated during his chairmanship, for privately financed electricity to be used...
...Tommy" Wilcox rose fast. He headed the bank's branch-expansion program in New York City and -perhaps recalling his own humble origins-was especially helpful in getting black businesses started. His only setback came in 1967 when he lost to Walter B. Wriston in a competition for chairmanship of the U.S.'s second largest bank. Not being No. 1 cramped him, though, and Wilcox quit in 1971 to join the investment firm of Blyth, Eastman, Dillon & Co. There, says a friend, he turned down "about 50,000 job offers." Then Crocker offered him an irresistible challenge. Gauging...
...task of building a strong Russia, hoping to make it a citadel against the imperial capitalist countries and a base for later revolutions. Gradually, the struggle to maintain a socialist state in a hostile world came to dominate much of Soviet policy. After Stalin ascended to the chairmanship of the Soviet Communist Party, he moved forcefully to obliterate the contradiction between an anti-imperialist socialist state's principles and the Soviet commitment to Russian interests. While still paying lip-service to anti-imperialist sentiments, he became head of a sprawling empire...