Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of White's appointments have been excellent. His own personal staff is very strong and Hale Champion, the new Boston Redevelopment Authority administrator, is a veteran of California politics. If White were willing to call upon these people for advice and to ignore those who'd drag photogenic cots into the Mayor's office and declare a state of emergency every time a traffic light fails to work, he'd probably have many more successes like the Welfare financing incident and very few blunders like the hasty and careless attempt to remove Commissioner McNamera...
...fans who had come to see Bill Shrout and Bill Murphy show their championship forms were disappointed. Shrout swam the 200-yard freestyle, where he coasted to an easy victory, and did not reappear until the final relay. Murphy, last year's Eastern Seaboard three meter diving champion, won the one meter dive, however, was cancelled because Columbia does not have a three meter board. Marty Chalfie, the junior butterflyer, and Al Birch, the senior backstroker, were recovering from the flu and did not swim...
...Terrell, Harvard's number two player and last year's National Junior Champion, battled his way into the finals--to face Peter Martin, the Canadian Men's Champion, who had edged Terrell, 3-2, only a week before in Toronto...
Mayor White's talent-hunting task force, headed by Samuel P. Huntington, Professor of Government, proposed Champion to serve as director...
...Champion is a former newspaperman and attended Harvard in 1956-57 as a Nieman Fellow in Journalism. He was California's Director of Finance for six years before coming to the Institute of Politics last February...