Word: developement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...memo dated Dec. 2,1971, with which the evidence begins, Strachan mentioned that "the Attorney General [Mitchell] discussed with John Dean the need to develop a political intelligence capability. Sandwedge [a previously considered plan] has been scrapped." In a memo four days later, Haldeman approved a pay raise, from $26,000 to $30,000, for Liddy, who had just shifted over from his job as an Ehrlichman aide to handle political intelligence and legal matters for the re-election committee. In these and later memos, Haldeman approved such trivia as the idea of starting a tabloid for the campaign...
...Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded two contracts to the Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Affairs to develop models of urban migration patterns. David L. Birch '59, associate professor of Business Administration, will be in charge of the Center's programs...
...party's machine in 1967, has been the Democratic mayor of racially divided Gary, Ind. An important link between black politicians in North and South, Hatcher has run into problems in the grimy steel city: white animosity, an exodus of white businessmen and a lack of capital to develop downtown areas. But Hatcher-who easily won a second term and will probably run for a third -has involved ordinary citizens in Gary's administration, waged war against corruption in city hall and the police department and obtained federal funds to erect the first public housing to be built...
Carl Sagan, 39, director of Cornell's Laboratory for Planetary Studies, is the nation's leading researcher and writer in exobiology the study of extraterrestrial life. A former Harvard astronomer, he has helped develop models for the atmospheres of other planets and for the conditions on primitive earth. He and a Cornell colleague created the celebrated "extraterrestrial message," showing a nude man and woman along with mathematical and astronomical symbols, that rode out of the solar system aboard Pioneer...
...years later led the Democratic ticket again when he ran for state treasurer. Since his election to the Senate in 1970 to complete Everett Dirksen's term, Stevenson has been one of the Nixon Administration's sharpest critics. Scholarly and hardworking, he called for funds to develop alternative energy sources as far back as 1972, recently directed the unsuccessful Senate effort to retain stand-by controls over wages and prices and has opposed the concept of federal revenue sharing on the grounds that some of the local governments receiving money are in better financial condition than Washington...