Word: directors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until just a few years ago, when rising social consciousness focused attention on the inequities and inefficiencies of the welfare system, there was no such thing as welfare law. "The welfare system existed for 30 years without scrutiny or challenge," says Lee Albert, 32, the center's kinetic director...
...judges themselves are unfamiliar with the legalities of the welfare system." To Burt W. Griffin, OEO's director of legal services, the center "has helped to build the intellectual foundation for a whole new area of law -poverty...
...staggering travel expenses. It is housed in a refurbished Columbia University apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side, and its full-time professional staff is composed of only eight young lawyers (average age 28). All could be getting good salaries on Wall Street, but they agree with Director Albert when he says: "I wanted to do something relevant." Albert, who earns $17,000 a year, went to Yale Law School, clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron ("Whizzer") White, and taught at the London School of Economics. He now teaches a course at the Columbia Law School. Others, like...
...that time, Pompidou had switched careers again and was chief administrative officer of the gilt-edged Paris Rothschild Bank, a position to which he rose in typical meteoric style four years after joining the company as an obscure subsidiary director. Still unknown politically, he accepted De Gaulle's offer of the premiership in 1962. Opposition politicians put him down as having "the confidence of the king," as one of them sneered, but Pompidou soon emerged in possession of much more. He became a first-rate parliamentary debater, and on television he came through as a skillful advocate who could...
Almost his first act was to summon the director of France's state-controlled radio and television networks. Under De Gaulle, the O.R.T.F. (Office de la Radio et Télévision Française) was a shamelessly partisan instrument of politics. For the forthcoming election, Poher told the director, it must be absolutely impartial. If it is not, he warned, he will carry his complaint straight to the French public. Poher does not really have the power to give that kind of order, but on hearing of his threat, Couve reportedly blanched. Poher is almost certain...