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After having her husband to herself for much of an idyllic summer, Happy Rockefeller frets about the separation that the vice presidency will bring. She greeted the appointment with distinct coolness. It is not that she is displeased says a family spokesman, but she is "less than enchanted with the idea, and her sons are having trouble getting used to it." Said a family friend: "She's not throwing her hat in the air about getting back into public life, but she is throwing her hat in the air because her husband is so happy...
...dean as president of Radcliffe if its trustees desired. But the responsibilities of the administrative head of what remained of "Radcliffe" had been so undercut that the retention of the title, "president of Radcliffe," represented a last meager attempt to maintain Radcliffe's identity as a women's institution distinct from the university that now controlled...
...last hundred years, the evil and the tragedy have become transmuted into a society that appeals to me because of its lack of illusions about success and failure and its emphasis on personal relationships and the manner in which people conduct their lives. The South is also a distinct place still, full of the past, and the North...
...order for a specific group of employees to form a union, 30 per cent of them have to submit cards to the NLRB stating that they want to unionize. The NLRB will then sponsor a union-forming vote if it rules that the group constitutes a unit of workers distinct enough to form a labor union. From Whence Came '78* Region Number Percentage Class of '77 Percentage New England 311 27.7% (29%) Mid Atlantic 338 30.1% (27.5%) South 127 11.3% (10.4%) Mid West 180 16% (17.6%) Mt. States 25 2.2% (3%) Pacific States 100 8.9% (8.8%) Territories 3 .4% -- Overseas...
...meeting for 10 a.m. Tuesday. But that morning Ford was able to attend a previously scheduled breakfast with eight young G.O.P. members of the House to discuss their concern about Nixon's economic policies. When the conversation briefly touched on the impeachment crisis, one Congressman reported, Ford gave the "distinct impression" that he was prepared to assume the presidency...