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...Geophysical Service Inc. to electronics after World War II. Last week, having reached retirement age, Brooklyn-born Jonsson stepped down as board chairman. His successor: Patrick Eugene Haggerty, 52, who as vice president and then president during the firm's remarkable growth matched Jonsson's financial know-how with his own expertise in electrical engineering. Haggerty will stay on as chief executive officer, but will be replaced as president by Mark Shepherd Jr., 43, executive vice president since 1961. As for Jonsson, Texas Instrument's biggest stockholder, he will keep busy in retirement as mayor of Dallas...
...have about come to the conclusion that the Great Society's principal roadblock is not lack of money, means or know-how, but paucity of will and desire. At local levels, too many people just don't give a damn...
...joint post-meeting statement, Chairman Norman H. Strouse and President Dan Seymour noted that the No. 1 agency in the U.S. is also assuming global proportions. "We have added new business this year," they said, "in every part of the world." And so they have. Combining Yankee know-how with local offices, the agency will now promote Gillette, Listerine, Singer, De Beers diamonds and Dunlop tires abroad...
Washington currently spends more than $25 million a year to help provide contraceptive know-how to 180,000 women in 41 states. Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity, which cautiously began underwriting projects nearly two years ago in communities like Corpus Christi, Texas, supports programs in 75 cities from Juneau, Alaska, to San Juan, P.R. Half a dozen Government agencies-notably the Department of Health, Education and Welfare-finance the dissemination of advice and devices from pills to diaphragms. Even the Defense Department has joined the act by making drugs, contraceptives and sterilization available to 500,000 military wives...
...Green Thumb, a much-praised part of the antipoverty program, resulted directly from a meeting of Lady Bird with representatives of the Farmers' Union. Now, in pilot projects in four states, retired farmers from 55 to 78 years old work three or four days a week using their know-how with the soil to carry out roadside beautification projects...