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...Auto Workers President George Woodcock, whose wage negotiations with automakers this summer may set a pattern for much of the nation. Six other commission members will represent the public, and another six will be men from business, including leaders of other industries facing key labor bargaining this year. The chairmanship will rotate among the five Government members: Treasury Secretary David Kennedy, Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, Labor Secretary James Hodgson, Chief Presidential Economist Paul McCracken and George Shultz, the White House's management and budget chief. With a line-up like that, the commission could be able to exercise considerable...
...chairmanship of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has traditionally belonged to the Army. Four of the six men to serve as chairman since the post was created in 1949 have been Army men, including General Earle Wheeler, who has held the post for the past six years. Only one has been an Air Force man, only one an admiral. Now the Navy is going to be in command again. Upon Wheeler's retirement this week, the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Thomas Moorer, 58, will take over as chairman...
Shultz put together a package that everyone could live with, and from then on Nixon kept handing him things. One was the chairmanship of a study group on the vastly complicated, politically sensitive problem of regulating oil imports. Shultz protested to Nixon that he knew nothing about it. Nixon, by then completely familiar with Shultz's studious and evenhanded methods, replied: "That is why I want...
...mayor, Vellucci assumes the chairmanship of the Cambridge School Committee. In his inaugural speech Vellucci vowed to work for the best interests of the schools and the children...
...years, but a large migration does not seem imminent. Though many prominent Southern Democrats favor Republican policy on racial issues, most recognize that Republicans on the local level are still distrusted in the South as the party of the rich. Furthermore, none of those Democrats who now hold committee chairmanships are willing to risk them by switching, as did South Carolina's Strom Thurmond. Nor need they. South Carolina Democrat L. Mendel Rivers privately favored Independent George Wallace over Hubert Humphrey in 1968. Instead of bolting, he let his constituents know exactly where he stood by keeping his silence...