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Nothing annoys President Johnson more than the notion that he cannot get good men to come to work - for him - in Washington. Last week, in his first Cabinet appointment, the President took special pains to disprove that theory: he named John T. Connor, 50, president of the multimillion-dollar drug firm, Merck & Co., as his new Secretary of Commerce to replace Luther Hodges...
...mark as Commerce Secretary by launching an export expansion program that helped boost U.S. exports from an annual $19.6 billion in 1960 to $25 billion now. But when he was first appointed, Hodges told friends that he would quit after four years. Last week he did-and Drug Executive Connor seemed to fit perfectly the presidential prescription for a replacement...
...Connor has never been modest about his talents or about his ambitions. In 1955, when Bush was scouting for a new company president, he asked 30 top Merck executives whom they would like to see in the job. Most picked Connor, and when Connor himself was asked, he said: "I should be the new president." Connor was only...
...Connor has a fine ear but perhaps too much patience with the talk that reveals character. If conversation were drama, theater would be superfluous...
...when you snap the ball," he told his centers. Rival coaches ac cused Leahy of teaching "dirty football," of flagrant recruiting violations, of "twisting" the rulebook with his "sucker shifts" and faked injuries. But one thing nobody could argue with: his success. With such stars as Johnny Lujack, George Connor, Johnny Lattner, Leon Hart and Ralph Guglielmi, Leahy won four national championships, ran off a string of 39 games without a loss, retired in 1953 with an overall record of 87 wins, eleven losses, nine ties...