Word: cracken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...