Word: governors
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...Maybe he talked too loud." That was one explanation in Washington for the sudden resignation last week of John Gilligan as the administrator of the Agency for International Development. A former Congressman and Governor of Ohio from 1970 to 1974, Gilligan clashed with top Administration officials over the policies of the bureaucracy that in fiscal 1978 dispensed $1.7 billion in foreign aid. In fact, the resignation may have been forced by his boss, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance...
Tuesday, the governor poured statistics of rising highway carnage and school vandalism on the legislature's joint Committee on Government Regulation and blamed much of the destruction on drunken teenagers. Wednesday the committee voted on a bill to raise the drinking age. Now before the Ways and Means Committee, the bill may reach the floor of the House by next Monday and the Senate by next Wednesday...
Although amendments offered on either the House or Senate floor could considerably alter the bill, members of both legislative branches have promised not to hold it up. A special preamble ensures the bill will take effect as soon as the governor signs...
...request tours of the advanced technology production lines for which U.S. industry is celebrated. During a 24-hr, swing through Georgia, he will visit the Ford Motor Co.'s assembly plant near Atlanta. His tour guide: Henry Ford II. Dinner that night at the mansion of Georgia Governor George Busbee will feature spinach soufflé, thinly sliced veal and vanilla mousse?all foods especially selected for eaters unskilled in the use of a knife and fork...
DIED. Nelson A. Rockefeller, 70, millionaire, art collector and four-term Governor of New York who failed three times to win the Republican nomination for President but finally, in 1974, was appointed to the second spot; of a heart attack; in Manhattan (see NATION...