Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quit? There was no gracious or easy way, either for McNamara or the President, to arrange the order of his going. A firm request from the Chief to stay on, probably half expected by McNamara, would have settled things; but it never came. From the President's viewpoint, McNamara's reasons for wanting to leave were sound. Tactical political considerations dictated that the closer to Election Day the resignation occurred, the more serious its impact...
...country owes it to you. I owe it to you." No firm decision was made, and there the matter rested for a time. Although Woods had made himself available for an extension of service of up to one year, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler in September told his fellow World Bank governors that the U.S.-which has always supplied the bank's president-would nominate a new one in October. When Fowler suggested that he give the bank a choice, including McNamara, Douglas Dillon and David Rockefeller, the President replied that his first, second and third nominees were all named...
University officials, in consultation with Mather's architect, Jean-Paul Carlhian, and the Turner Construction Company, the firm submitting the lowest original bid, worked out a series of technical modifications worth a half-million dollars in construction savings. On November 7, the University agreed to contract with Turner, and excavation began shortly after. Occupancy, Wiggins said, is still scheduled for September...
...FREEMAN '50 started last year with an idea very similar to Cambridge Seven's, "a desire to reverse the process of restrictive expertise," as he calls it. But it is not as simple as that. Freeman's highly diverse and integrated firm is trying to create something different, something that even he has difficulty defining...
...firm full of graphic designers, architects, photographers, and film makers seems like a hopelessly heterogeneous bunch. Freeman is not quite sure where the firm is going, but, like The Seven, his concerns are wide-range communications and planning for the complete environment...