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Hyman Rickover, father of the nuclear navy, friend of congressional committee chairmen, was accustomed to getting his way with defense contractors. Once, according to congressional investigators, while visiting General Dynamics' Electric Boat shipyard in Groton, Conn., the crusty admiral admired a horn-handled fruit knife and idly declared that he would like to have a dozen of them. Shipyard executives hopped to. The handle was shipped off to a General Dynamics' lab, where analysis revealed that it had been made from the horn of a rare Southeast Asian buffalo. More buffalo horn was sent for, and a dozen...
Blumenfeld was first brought to the city's attention when he was interviewed by Deputy Mayor Stanley Brezenoff for a different job Brezenoff decided he would be well-suited to the Times Square project, and recommended him to the chairmen of the New York Urban Development Corp. and the New York City Planning Commission, according to an article in the New York Post...
...majority leader's job is one of the several most important in Washington, and five candidates are fighting for it. Since the majority leader cannot also head a Senate committee, and since three of the five candidates are chairmen of important committees, next week's G.O.P. caucus is almost certain to set off a new round of politicking for the various chairmanships, which are to be filled in January...
...Mondale's 1984 defeat. "Future candidates would be crazy to go after a labor endorsement before the primaries," says William Schneider, an elections expert at the American Enterprise Institute. Concurs Analyst Baron: "Labor has clearly reduced its clout in the party in the future. A lot of state chairmen who were skeptical, but went along, are now saying, 'We won't let them do that to us again.' " -By Susan Tifft. Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington, with other bureaus
University spokesman Steve Kezerian added yesterday that any faculty members cancelling classes might be subject to disciplinary action from the college dean and from their department chairmen. The administration has also notified chairmen that members of their departments will be expected to refrain from participating in the boycott...