Word: metcalfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gordon Metcalf of Sears, Roebuck complains that retail-sales figures, which store chains use to plan inventories and sales-promotion policies, are especially slippery. "For instance," he says, "on April 11, retail sales for March were announced as $29.58 billion, a record and a substantial increase over February. On May 5, the March figure was revised to $28.92 billion, a decrease rather than an increase from February...
...toll of man. The National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., has produced evidence incriminating DDT and related pesticides as the cause of tumors of the liver and lungs in mice. When men are consistently exposed to such chemicals, adds the University of Colorado's Dr. David R. Metcalf, there is deterioration of memory and reaction time...
...Vertex, who sired 1965 Derby Winner Lucky Debonair, Top Knight was a "very ugly, gangly colt," with a reputation for gimpy legs. "He may be a little odd-looking," admits Trainer Ray Metcalf. "Nobody particularly liked him-until he started putting those $100,000 purses in the bank...
...Sierra Club, are waiting to learn more of Hickel's views before taking a stand on his appointment. So are conservationist members of the Senate Interior Committee: Democrats Walter Mondale of Minnesota, William Proxmire and Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, South Dakota's George McGovern and Lee Metcalf of Montana...
Positive Force. A graduate of California's Riverside campus, Young earned his Ph.D. in political science at U.C.L.A. and gained some practical knowledge about the subject while serving for two years in Washington as an aide to Congressman Lee Metcalf. In 1959, he was hired as a staff assistant to Clark Kerr, then president of the University of California. One year later, Franklin Murphy lured him to U.C.L.A. as his personal assistant, eventually got him promoted to assistant chancellor and began to groom him as a potential successor. While Murphy planned and directed U.C.L.A.'s massive expansion program...