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...that European countries repay on their Marshall Plan loans; European countries would kick in amounts equal to 20% of their repayments to the U.S. Estimated total available: $100 million a year. In addition, private capital would be encouraged to join in. To manage the fund, the Italians suggested a nine-man international board to be chaired by a representative from...
...deposit box without success. All week long they met in secret session, were tight-lipped about rumors of stormy rivalry between two candidates for Guardian-one of them said to be an American. At last they announced the solution: there would be no new Guardian at all, but a nine-man council of Hands at Haifa, titled "Hands of the Cause of God on Holy Land." The new body will have no power to interpret scripture...
Four CCA candidates were the highest vote-getters after Sullivan, and will probably be elected if their totals reach the quota required under PR. Alfred Vellucci, who had earlier stated, "I will win by a landslide," was a weak eighth, and may lose his seat on the nine-man Council...
...unnecessary office lights, refuses to trade in his 1950 city Cadillac, and won't even use it in his campaign rounds. He is the most powerful big-city mayor in the U.S., has the say-so over almost 7,000 municipal jobs, keeps tight rein on a nine-man city council whose makeup is determined not so much by personal ability as by quotas, e.g., five Catholics, three Protestants, one Jew. In twelve years the council has never defeated a Lawrence proposal. His Republican opposition is weak and disorganized; Pittsburgh's top Republican businessmen like Lawrence...
...chairman of U.S. Hoffman. In came a group of new faces. Charles E. Stahl Jr., a 42-year-old Westchester County banker, will become president, and onetime U.S. Director of Price Stabilization Michael Di Salle chairman of the executive committee. Among the five new directors on Hoffman's nine-man board: Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association of America. Stahl and Di Salle will buy Marcus' shares (reported to be about 200,000) in the corporate name, and gain working control of the company...