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...make room for the left. In part, it was a shrewd device that served to silence some potentially vocal critics. He put Leftist Dick Crossman in charge of Housing, well aware that he knew little about this complex subject and would be kept too busy doing his homework to have any time for intraparty politicking. The same theory influenced his handing the Ministry of Technology to burly Frank Cousins, a former Ban-the-Bomber and ex-general secretary of the powerful Transport and General Workers Union. No Cabinet post, but a respectful parliamentary secretaryship went to Jennie Lee, 60, widow...
Part of Vellucci's influence derives from the wide range of people he has met and has been able to impress. And Vellucci does impress them. At City Council hearings, though his question periods are long and often boring, he has obviously done his homework, sometimes better than the people he questions. In a group, he is immediately able to sense what the group wants to hear from him, and to adapt himself accordingly...
...bankers when he moved into his job last January. Deming was hand-picked for the job by his predecessor, Robert Roosa, who gave him two pieces of advice: For the first year, make no public statements and do not bring your wife to Washington-you will have too much homework to do. (Deming will hit the lecture trail this month, and Mrs. Deming will move in from Minneapolis this fall...
...cents for the most expensive seats). Sports played a very important role, and the school grounds were alive with activity from soccer to ping-pong until night fall. No nightlife existed, and even if it had, nobody would have been able to take time away from the heavy homework load...
...thoroughly documented historical account of our intervention in that country, and dramatizes the burden of guilt we must bear for our actions there. Even those readers who find his commentary a little too radical for their sensitive political palates will find that, like I.F. Stone, Rhodes has done his homework and has come up with astonishing quotations from the pages of the New York Times, the Congressional Record, and the Christian Science Monitor...