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Losing Leverage. Another argument against blanket withdrawal of investments is raised by Wichita Lawyer William Thompson, the new Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church. He contends that by taking funds out of a bank or selling shares in a company whose policies they may not approve, the churches lose their leverage to change the minds of corporation officials...
...89th Congress were made by persons other than those in whose names the tickets were bought. The subcommittee, which was authorized by the House three months ago to carry out its investigation, also heard Silvia Givens, 20, testify that she was hired by Powell last August as a clerk, but actually worked as a cookmaid at Powell's Bahamian retreat on South Bimini Island. Subpoenaed to appear this week is Powell's estranged wife, Yvette, who is on his payroll as a $20,578-a-year assistant, though she lives in Puerto Rico. Her checks had been going...
...Clerk to Cook. According to Subcommittee Chairman Wayne Hays of Ohio, the sessions revealed irregularities aplenty. There was, for example, the peculiar case of the 22 travel credit cards held by Powell-committee staffers. Mrs. Emma Swann, a committee receptionist whose name appeared on vouchers for 20 trips, testified that she had made only three of them - and that they were to Miami for "sightseeing and shopping." Russell Derrickson, staff director of Powell's panel, denied making any of the 26 trips charged to his name. Odell Clark, the committee's chief investigator, was unable to explain...
...outranked by any Ph.D. when it comes to jobs, pay and promotion in teaching and government. Most of Hervey's "evidence" fails to impress skeptics, who point out that law professors are the country's highest paid teachers, whatever their degrees. And what Supreme Court law clerk was ever picked because he had a J.D. rather than an LL.B.? Whether in the armed forces or the Justice Department, say J.D. critics, the way to get a good Government legal job is to make good grades in a good law school. They propose upgrading law schools instead of renaming...
...years ago, Chairman Eppert, who started at Burroughs as a shipping clerk 45 years ago, began looking for a successor, found him in Ray W. Macdonald, head of the company's international sales. Under Macdonald, the company's overseas operations grew to equal its domestic organization. Macdonald, now 54, was appointed president last January, will succeed Eppert as chief executive officer Feb. 1. His expectation: annual sales of $1 billion by the early 1970s...