Word: chairmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...David D. Rutstein '30, Watts Professor of Preventive Medicine, and Murray Eden, professor of Electrical Engineering at M.I.T., have been named committee co-chairmen...
...real hope for progress-as the Governors' statement recognized-still lies with the Federal Government, which alone has resources sufficient for the task. Despite a flurry of imaginative proposals from both sides of the aisle, there was little hope that Congress-dominated by its aging, rural-oriented committee chairmen-would open up those resources without a strong push from the electorate. Yet the man in the best position to stir the American conscience, the President, seemed unusually phlegmatic about the urban crisis...
...Nixon, he is running a campaign that is markedly similar to Goldwater's in 1964-striking a low posture to avoid overexposure, and all the while rounding up the state and county chairmen whose votes often determine the nominees. But there is a significant difference from 1964. Then, Goldwater stood unchallenged as the champion of the G.O.P.'s conservative wing, thus was able to prevail over the badly fragmented moderates. Now, Reagan's ascendancy poses the threat of a conservative split. Reagan, in fact, said of Nixon to one Republican Governor: "This guy's a loser...
Planning for the next summer's sessions begins in September, when Crooks meets with all the Harvard department chairmen and outlines the school's basic needs. Course offerings and faculty are up to each department, and Crooks himself exerts little direct pressure. "The departments know what fields they ought to cover, and they don't want much help," he points out. The number of courses has increased from 151 to 191 in the last five years. Most of the growth has come in languages and in offerings from architectural science, Celtic, history of science, and the Carpenter Center, which last...
...they do so only when he can be helpful, which is likely to be very often. His office contains files on individuals, corporations, and foundations--what they have given, what they are interested in, who may be influential in a company. Reynolds stays in contact with the general chairmen of drives, attends their executive committee meetings when asked, and handles many administrative details...