Word: connors
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BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Donald O'Connor hosts a program of "The Music of Cole Porter...
This spring augurs better for mystery lovers than for followers of serious fiction. Among the most beguiling on the sleuth are The French Doll, by Vincent O'Connor, which has a CIA hero and a racy Paris setting; The Interrogators, by Allan Prior, in which two doughty Scotland Yard men are hampered in their pursuit by their heavy drinking; Midnight Plus One, by Gavin Lyall, a kaleidoscopic Bondian yarn; and Cunning as a Fox, by Kyle Hunt (a pseudonym of John Creasey), in which the sleuth is a psychiatrist hired by the wanted teenager's frantic parents...
...Johnson could staff his Administration with the high-caliber types necessary for any pretense at good government. Now, after 17 months in office, Johnson has made about 130 top-level appointments-and by any reasonable standard his report card would read "excellent." Among the blue-ribbon picks: John T. Connor as Secretary of Commerce, Henry H. Fowler as Secretary of the Treasury, and retired Admiral William Raborn as the new Director of the Central Intelligence Agency...
...John Connor, the Commerce Secretary, left the presidency of Merck & Co. to find himself suddenly doctoring the nation's money ailments. He uses his chummy ties with the nation's top businessmen to persuade them to restrict foreign investing, last week received the first reports from 623 corporate chiefs on what they are doing to retrench. White House aides grumble that he has stolen too much of the spotlight in the payments-balancing act, and that he too vigorously defends the business establishment. Unlike the last several Commerce Secretaries, Connor has become a major adviser to the President...
...money team has its weaknesses, of course, but it is versatile and well balanced. Johnson will rely on Joe Fowler and Jack Connor to sell his policies to the nation's businessmen, Bill Martin and Fred Deming to deal with the international moneymen, and Ackley to pick the brains of the nation's economists. In the coming skirmishes over money policy, these few men are destined to wield more and more power...