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...just as the social scene in which she moved was acquiring its most important postwar emphasis: the charity ball. For three years-1959-1961-she headed the most elegant and profitable of the balls-the April in Paris, which raised over $200,000 under her chairmanship for French charities...
Alabama's John Grenier, 31, is a vigorous Birmingham lawyer who won the chairmanship from the Old Guard last month. In 1960 Grenier spearheaded the Nixon effort in Birmingham, takes pleasure in the fact that the Republican Presidential candidate got 60% of the vote. Since taking over the state chairmanship, Grenier has opened a full-time headquarters, complete with staff, Addressograph machines, multilith offset printing presses, and a $150,000 budget. Says Grenier: "The young people were sick and tired of the one-party system in the South. It was just ridiculous, and the old people wouldn...
Omitted Name. Meanwhile, a House subcommittee headed by North Carolina's L. H. Fountain resumed hearings on Estes' massive grain-storage operations. The Fountain investigation was only a sort of aperitif served up before full-course Senate hearings scheduled to begin June 27 under the chairmanship of Arkansas' leathery John McClellan. But even so, the Fountain subcommittee made a splash of its own. Over the protests of Republican members, the subcommittee's Democratic majority fired the minority counsel, Republican Lawyer Robert E. Manuel. His offense: giving a New York Herald Tribune reporter a copy...
...past year Matsushita has stepped up to the chairmanship of Matsushita Electric and, though he still watches overall policy, is making a manful effort to turn day-by-day operation over to his son-in-law-and adopted son-Masaharu Matsushita, 49. (Matsushita's own son died when he was two years old.) The younger Matsushita, who lacks the contagious zeal of his self-made father-in-law, is intensifying the company's research efforts and stressing computers...
Minihan, who was opposed by three in his quest for the chairmanship, told the Council that this year would be "a crucial time" for the organization. He emphasized that the successes of this Council would "make or break" Council at Harvard...