Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alter Ego. A Yale-educated West Virginian, Vance, 50, arrived on the Washington scene in 1957 to help draft the Space Act, then was chosen as special counsel to the Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee, chaired by L.B.J. After the Democratic accession in 1961, Vance became general counsel to McNamara, moved up to Secretary of the Army a year later. During his 18 months in that post, and later as Deputy Secretary, he supervised the revitalization of the Army and other "cost-effective" reforms as McNamara's discreet alter ego. Vance's health is a limitation in the grinding...
When the high cost of Percy's popularity became clear last summer, his former campaign manager, Tom Houser, laid plans to round up some 200 Illinois businessmen to form "the Percy Group," contributing a total of $100,000 annually to help Chuck defray office expenses...
...major loss to the civil rights movement." Actually, John Doar is not being lost at all. He is going once again to where the action is, this time into the city ghettos, which have become the new battleground for civil rights. Doar will become president of an ambitious self-help project supported jointly by Government and private funds in Brooklyn's crime-ridden, abjectly poor Bedford-Stuyvesant section. His replacement at the Civil Rights Division will be Stephen J. Pollak, 39, a Dartmouth-and Yale-educated Chicagoan who has served as an assistant to the Solicitor General, legal counsel...
Though both Kansas City papers virtually ignored the affair, it did not go unnoticed by Mrs. Helen Dow, 61, and her friend Mrs. Virginia McCray, 45. Hoping to raise a few hundred dollars to help the Garcias with hospital and funeral expenses, the two women, at last count, had collected $14,200 from more than 1,500 donors. Mrs. Kindermann's fifth-grade class needed no prompting to write Primitivo in the hospital. "I am thanking you for saving Mrs. Kindermann's life and her baby," wrote one girl. "Our room is learning Spanish. Our city...
...Exchequer. Harold Wilson moved him over to the Home Office and replaced him at the Treasury with Home Secretary Roy Jenkins, 48, a tough but suave economist who may be one of the few Laborites to gain from the par ty's recent embarrassments - provided that he can help extricate Britain from its present economic morass...