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...wire-rim glasses, he fidgeted restlessly and riffled through the pages of his speech, which was bound in a red folder. Two hours before he stepped up to the polished, dark wood lectern to nominate Chernenko for President, his own name came up on a list of parliamentary committee chairmen. The neoclassical hall was wrapped in a post-luncheon lethargy and few delegates were in their seats when the announcement was made that Gorbachev had been appointed head of the Foreign Affairs Commission. The choice was significant, for the post has traditionally been held by the party's second...
...with the election of the senior Marshals and the Class Committee under the auspices of Wadsworth House (the Alumni Association). Though they have no jurisdiction over the Class Gift drive--which is handled by a separate Harvard organization, the Harvard-Radcliffe Fund--they choose the senior Class Gift co-chairmen...
...chairmen are responsible for working with the Harvard-Radcliffe Fund in Holvoke Center and getting the Class Gift machinery humming. They choose regional gift captains, each in charge of a couple of Houses; then there are two gift co-captains for each House: and finally there are the many class agents in each house who do the bulk of the soliciting. For all these people there are special activities: a kick-off dinner at the Boston Harvard Club; during the drive there are progress parties where agents can discuss their progress and their problems; and at the end there...
...Mario Cuomo. Says a Mondale campaign official: "New Yorkers are tougher, more cynical and not as taken by the idea of newness. Plus Hart's newness has been out there a while." New York City Mayor Ed Koch backs Mondale, as do Cuomo and 55 of 62 county chairmen. Unlike Illinois, New York does not allow independents and Republicans to vote in the Democratic primary, thus stripping Hart of his ability to reach outside the party. Says Hart's national cochairman, Theodore Sorensen: "It's tough. The entire Establishment is against...
...Chairmen of the board at General Motors tend to be bland organization types. Though they command a vast $60 billion industrial empire that controls more than 60% of the U.S. automobile market, none in recent decades has had the public impact of Henry Ford II or Lee lacocca. Three years ago, when Roger B. Smith, a 5-ft. 9-in., red-haired man with a squeaky voice, moved into the walnut-veneered chairman's office on the 14th floor of the General Motors building in Detroit, he was expected to blend into the woodwork. Smith had joined...