Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Power experts were still at odds over ways of preventing a single malfunction from pulling down an entire grid. Though FPC Chairman Joseph Swidler was preparing a report for President Johnson, final recommendations will take more intensive studies. Meanwhile, there were signs that Congress will be asked to tighten FPC's police powers. Next week a special House Commerce subcommittee investigating the blackout will hold its first meeting in Washington...
...crowded Chamber of Deputies and tried to look confident. Three rows back, his predecessor, Moise Tshombe, tapped his foot nervously. As the Congolese Parliament met in joint session last week, about the only empty seat in the Palais de la Nation was the leopard-skin presidential chair itself: President Joseph Kasavubu, who could not vote anyway, had gone off to attend a memorial service for the nation's civil war dead...
...biggest companies, the trend is to cut off the former bosses rather sharply. Many of the retired themselves sympathize with that policy. Says Joseph B. Hall, former chairman of Kroger Co., the Cincinnati-based grocery chain: "I'm in favor of a retiring officer clearing out completely. The new chief executive should get every break." General Motors' John Gordon, 65, has seldom been seen at G.M. since he left the presidency in June. Ralph Cordiner, 65, retreated to the serenity of his Florida cattle ranch two years ago upon retirement as chairman of General Electric, emerged only briefly...
Resisting U.S. efforts to move them out of Oregon's Wallowa Valley and resettle them on an Idaho reservation, some 750 Nez Perce men, women and children led by Chief Joseph had staged an incredible 1,700-mile retreat across four states, fighting off 2,000 U.S. troops along the way. Finally, seeking sanctuary in Canada, they were within 35 miles of their goal when they were surrounded, and Chief Joseph decided to surrender. With his surrender, the last major Indian resistance to the encroaching white man in the Northwest was broken...
Author Josephy offers one final, even more disillusioning fact: despite all his bullet nicks and his sadly beautiful words, Chief Joseph was not a warrior at heart. During the Nez Perce war, he left most of the fighting to his subchiefs. He looked after the women, children and a herd of horses...