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Bundy was approached in Washington by John J. McCloy, Ford Foundation chairman, who will resign on January 1. It has been reported that McCloy will be succeeded by Julias A. Stratton, president of M.I.T. A source close to Stratton said that Stratton had accepted the chairmanship...
Another factor in Trodden's defeat may have been his chairmanship of the City Council's special Committee on the new $60 million electronic laboratory for the National Aeronautics and Space Admin- istration. The NASA laboratory and a related private development will occupy 42 acres in Kendall Square and displace 94 firms now located there. Trodden was reportedly told by some of his supporters that they would no longer back him because of his pro-NASA position...
With the expansion of the program, it is hoped that the publication Nieman Reports will be developed into "the most significant journal for journalists in the world," President Pusey said in announcing Taylor's chairmanship. An expansion of the Nieman Library of Contemporary Journalism is also planned...
...years as lord high executioner of foreign aid bills, the chairman of his parent committee had been Missouri's curmudgeonly Clarence Cannon, another handout hater, who gave Passman a free hand to slash as he saw fit. But when Cannon died last year, the House Appropriations chairmanship went to Texas' George Mahon, a middle-of-the-road Democrat, who set about taming the Tartar. Though he let Passman stay on as chairman of the subcommittee, he pared it from eleven to nine members, most of whom favor foreign aid. Passman found himself powerless. Where, in his heyday, subcommittee...
Fulsome Apology. Instead of resigning the chairmanship, Passman last week chose the chastening task of managing a $3.3 billion foreign aid bill that he abominated-and had been able to trim by only $75 million, a mere nick by former standards. It was one of the strangest performances in the memory of the House...