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...behind-the-scenes struggle burst into public view last June when the Rev. Eugene Stockwell, head of the council's overseas division, suddenly removed C.W.S. Director James Mac-Cracken, 52, a respected, tough-minded Presbyterian layman, who had held the post for nine years. Personalities and bureaucratic infighting played a major role in the MacCracken firing with three days' notice, but a basic dispute over philosophy brought things to a head. The day before he acted, Stockwell had met with the committee of denominational officials that oversees C.W.S. and in effect accused MacCracken of foot dragging...
...trenchant that, with only slight editing, they were handed out to the press as background material on Sunday. Last week Herb Stein's flexibility was rewarded. In a change not so much of policies as of personalities, Nixon named pragmatic Herb Stein, 55, to succeed professorial Paul Mc-Cracken as CEA chairman...
...case in point. Though already granted a 42% wage hike, the United Transportation Union was resisting changes in costly and long-obsolete work rules, fearing they would lead to a restricting of both income and jobs. Nixon did summon leaders of both sides to express his concern, and Mc-Cracken explained that if the walkout continues through August it would reduce the anticipated gross national product by $50 billion-three times the cost of the General Motors strike. Although the usual emergency legislation to stop a rail strike was prepared, by week's end Nixon had not yet asked...
...does the fact that a number of companies are "stockpiling" workers because of the shortage of skills, and may be inclined to hang onto them as long as possible, even if that means some short-term loss of profits. The White House nonetheless hopes to devise what Paul Mc-Cracken calls "other kinds of public policies" to keep unemployment from rising too rapidly under the influence of anti-inflationary restraints...
...MacCracken for the night. Next day Mr. Jurney asked Mr. MacCracken if he would like to take a ride to the Senate Office Building. They drove to the Capitol together, met Mr. Leslie Garnett, U. S. District Attorney to whom Mr. Jurney introduced Mr. Mac-Cracken. Under cover of this distraction, the Sergeant at Arms slipped into Mr. Garnett's automobile and escaped from his unwelcome guest. For the remainder of the week-end the whereabouts of Sergeant and Mrs. Jurney became as uncertain as the whereabouts of Mr. MacCracken during the previous two days...