Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...programs began to be cranked up. A bipartisan group of ten Senators, including Hugh Scott, introduced a bill to expand public service employment by 1 million jobs, at an annual cost of about $7.8 billion. In a joint statement, two of the cosponsors, G.O.P. Senator Jacob Javits and Democrat Harrison Williams, declared: "The nation is moving at alarming speed toward Depression-like levels of unemployment in terms of absolute numbers-the truly human measure." By that they mean that given the much larger U.S. population today, the number of individual...
...Harrison's Crimson squad, under the direction of Jim Fitzsimmons (35 points) set the Harvard record for most points scored--125--in a single game as well as the all-time record for most points allowed, 117. The two squads also set a Harvard game record for most personal fouls in a single contest as the Crimson racked up 33 while Brandeis picked...
...member of the magazine's staff, who asked not to be named, said Thursday that Harrison's resignation resulted from "problems of authority." "It was a very awkward situation," he continued, characterizing Peretz as "a guy that was not going to be a silent partner." But the staff member also said he felt that "the conflict has been overplayed...
Both Peretz and the staff member said that Harrison had not expressed bitterness at his resignation. Reached Thursday, Harrison said that he has no plans for the immediate future and declined to comment on his resignation...
Mills thus joined New Jersey Senator Harrison Williams and outgoing Iowa Senator Harold Hughes as an admitted problem drinker. The Arkansas Congressman has received counseling from Alcoholics Anonymous in the hospital, and he vows total abstinence in the future. Said he: "I have been a sick man who did not understand the nature of the illness...