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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After that," Jones recalls, "we operated a little more efficiently." Davey Jones not only survived that trip, but he has functioned so efficiently ever since that last week he was named by President Jimmy Carter to become the new head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In an otherwise routine shift of three top-level military commands, Jones, 56, and the Air Force won an unexpected victory by gaining the two-year appointment to the nation's highest uniformed post at a time when traditional rotation policy would have turned it over to the Army. Jones will succeed another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Team Player for the Joint Chiefs | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

Arrow, who migrated from Stanford to Harvard in 1968, will assume the position of joint professor of economics and operations research when he returns to Palo Alto. As one of eight University Professors at Harvard, Arrow currently occupies one of the University's most prestigious posts--one that allows him to teach in any department he wishes, without being bound by departmental guidelines...

Author: By Alfred E. Jean, | Title: California Dreamin' | 4/15/1978 | See Source »

...jumping up and down in their seats just in front of me, causing me to spill orange juice all over my lap. Their mothers brought them under control, but only after going beserk themselves. A band of spring-break student gypsies surrendered to the madness and lit up a joint...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Search of Pennant Fever | 4/14/1978 | See Source »

Kenneth J. Arrow, James Bryant Conant University Professor and Nobel Laureate, will leave Harvard in the fall of 1979 to join the Stanford University economics department as joint professor of economics and operation research. Research...

Author: By Georgia A. Hill, | Title: Nobel Prize Winner Leaves for Stanford | 4/12/1978 | See Source »

Watson, whose speech was sponsored by the MIT-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, said he has recently been appointed Chairman of a new federal agency designed to unite the administrators of large businesses in urban areas...

Author: By Jennifer H. Arlen, | Title: Carter Aide Says New Urban Policy Hard to Implement | 4/11/1978 | See Source »

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