Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months is a short time in which to master the intricacies of the Pentagon from inside, but Laird has made an energetic start. Since he lacks administrative experience, he fought hard to get as his deputy David Packard, the centimillionaire co-proprietor of a West Coast electronics firm that has had sizable defense contracts. While Laird has immersed himself in day-to-day Pentagon business in order to learn the nuts and bolts of the Defense Department, Packard has taken on the long-range tasks. He heads the studies on ABM, the aftermath of Pueblo's seizure, the defense...
...campaign defeat, the liberals smacked down several Reagan proposals in early 1967. But natural turnover has taken its toll since then. And this fall, when Republican victories in the state legislature gave Reagan men a few more ex officio seats on the Board of Regents, Reagan finally had a firm majority...
...Unitarian poultryman and an Irish Catholic schoolmarm. Himself an M.S.U.-trained ('23) poultry breeder, he became president of the International Baby Chick Association, supervised egg production for the NRA during the Depression. At 32, spurning an offer of $18,000 a year from a Chicago food-packing firm, he returned to M.S.U. as his alma mater's $4,500-a-year business manager. He chose wisely. By 1941, he had married the president's daughter and succeeded his father-in-law in the front office...
...young Carroll, the second of four sons in a proper Philadelphia family, went on from the University of Pennsylvania to take a law degree at Dickinson School of Law and work for a year in a large Philadelphia firm. When he found law incompatible, he turned to civic projects?the Robin Hood Dell concerts, the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company?and when the Depression struck, helped feed, clothe and house Philadelphia's unemployed. Under Miss Adams' influence Carroll had been trying his hand at horoscopes, and now he began to do them for the unemployed. He was impressed, he says...
...agrees. Two years ago, he organized the United Athletic Association to represent black athletes. Among his first clients was Leroy Kelly, who succeeded Brown at Cleveland as the league's leading ground gainer. At the time, Kelly was making $21,000 a year; last year Brown's firm negotiated a new contract that will pay the running back $320,000 over four years...