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Somber and Unsure. Nixon's main preoccupation was drafting his inaugural address, which he is writing out on lined yellow legal pads. At week's end his Cabinet members assembled in New York at the Pierre hotel headquarters for two days of briefings with the heads of 21 task forces that have been studying the problems facing the incoming Administration. Henry Loomis, director of the policy task force, let it be known that there would be no sudden departures. "Don't expect dramatic shifts or changes," said Loomis. "Maybe Nixon will be able to slow down...
Almost without exception, the press sessions centered around problems of money. For Nixon's men are businessmen--highly successful and generally self-made. Construction men, oil tycoons, and bankers dominate the Cabinet; and how to manage their great wealth while they are in office was a main theme of the appointee's appearances. John A. Volpe, destined to be Secretary of Transportation, plans to sell all his stock in his construction company--to his brother. Winton Blount, the new Postmaster General, made his money in construction too--largely from federal contracts. He will place his stock in a trust while...
...Mount Auburn Tenants Council filed criminal charges against President Pusey and the Fellows of Harvard College in the Third District court in East Cambridge yesterday for alleged violation of state laws requiring locks on all main doors of apartment buildings...
...Vogel emphasized that the structure of the course for next year has not yet been determined. He did say, however, that it would be harder to adopt the student proposals for sections than to allow students to write term papers. The main difficulty in having sections, he said, would be finding qualified teaching fellows...
Even though a court order temporarily restrained the city from collecting the levy, the nation's oldest exchange (founded in 1790) started trading in makeshift leased quarters in the affluent Main Line town of Bala-Cynwyd, a 25-minute auto ride from the city center. Lacking the traditional opening bell, George Snyder, an exchange governor, intoned a resounding "bong." Then 25 trading specialists sat around a composition-board table laid over trestles to buy and sell shares. Despite a shortage of telephones and stock tickers, which forced them to run the tapes down the length of the table...