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Other changes are expected in Cabinet positions. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird has made clear to reporters his intention to leave; New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, once a bitter Nixon critic, is rumored to be a possible successor. George Romney has announced his imminent departure as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Assistant Secretary Samuel Jackson, a black, might give blacks more hope for racially enlightened housing policies; Donald Rumsfeld, director of the Cost of Living Council, has been mentioned too. Also expected to leave, although there has been little talk of who might replace them, are Labor Secretary James Hodgson...
...solid South. Republican David Treen, for instance, won in Louisiana to become that state's first G.O.P. Representative in a century. In other regions, Democratic majorities generally held firm. One of the more interesting races took place in New York's Westchester County. There the Republican establishment, starring Governor Nelson Rockefeller, attempted to defeat Congressman Ogden ("Brownie") Reid, once publisher of the old Herald Tribune, who recently switched to the Democrats. Even the President joined the effort. Reid's independent-minded constituents, however, stuck with their...
...larger than that at some schools competing in the major-college division, it has none of the trappings of the so-called "football factories"-big budgets, big stadiums, nationwide recruiting. Since the Delaware team has no trouble meeting its modest yearly budget of $150,000, Athletic Director Dave Nelson discourages alumni contributors. "Let them give to the philosophy department," he says. Each year Delaware metes out a mere twelve football scholarships-less than half the 25 allowed by N.C.A.A. rules-and draws more than 95% of its players from within a 150-mile radius of its Newark, Del., campus...
...showdown was staged a fortnight ago in the chandeliered Nelson Room of the Trafalgar Tavern hard by the Thames in Greenwich. The Americans had barely unpacked their darts when the wily British indulged in a bit of ye olde "putting off" (psyching your opponent). The white toe-line, they announced, would be set 7 ft. 6 in. from the board and not 8 ft. as in the U.S. U.S. Darter Jack Carr, 39, a pub owner from Hermosa Beach, Calif., responded with some putting off of his own. "We'll continue to shoot from 8 ft.," he said gallantly...
...Nelson said yesterday that the contraceptives would probably be kept under the counter and no signs would be posted...