Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...layoff of thousands of steelworkers. But antitrust officials objected that even the marriage of two money losers. LTV's Jones & Laughlin and Lykes' Youngstown Sheet and Tube, would reduce steel competition. In the end, it came down to a very close personal decision by Attorney General Griffin Bell. Last week, overruling his staff, he approved the deal by which LTV (sales last year: $4.7 billion) will acquire Lykes for about $200 million in stock...
...Ervin? Merv Griffin? Billy Carter...
...year ago an intelligence review uncovered what one investigator called "one of the worst leaks in State Department history." Acting with Jimmy Carter's consent, Attorney General Griffin Bell ordered a tap to be placed on the phone of Truong, expatriate son of a South Vietnamese "peace candidate" who ran unsuccessfully in 1967. The FBI quickly traced one of Truong's contacts to the U.S.I.A. The suspect turned out to be Humphrey, a middle-ranking official who had served three years in Viet Nam and was desperately trying to extricate his Vietnamese mistress and her children from Saigon...
...promised only to press his colleagues for fair and open-minded consideration of the Administration proposals. At any rate, Church persuaded John Glenn of Ohio to back the sales. On the Republican side, lobbying help came from none other than Gerald Ford, who persuaded Michigan's Robert Griffin to fall into line...
...administrators have come to promote a year off. "Even those who do work they would never want to do again -vending pretzels, for example-find a year or two off to be a positive experience," notes Princeton Assistant Dean Richard G. Williams. Adds Yale Dean of Undergraduate Studies Martin Griffin: "Students come back with at least marginally clearer focus and a clear head." Often it is the students themselves who hesitate, concerned about parental opposition, the difficulty of obtaining a decent job, and the tuition increases they will face upon return. Says Williams: "Students spend more time worrying about whether...