Word: oversaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Technology, Charpie joined Union Carbide at 25 when he went to work at the Government's Carbide-run Oak Ridge nuclear laboratories in 1950. Rising through Carbide's technological ranks, Charpie was tapped to head its electronics division when it was formed two years ago, there oversaw development of new laser systems, fuel cells and other items...
Moyers flourished in the deputy director's job. "We were able to take an idealistic dream and develop it into an effective program," he recalls. "Few things in life can be as satisfying as that." He handled day-to-day administration, oversaw personnel programs, supervised overseas logistics. He dined occasionally at the White House, was even asked to Bobby Kennedy's Hickory Hill, a rare honor for a Johnson man. A less pleasant task fell to him when he took over Peace Corps recruiting. He found the operation a mess, immediately fired 17 people...
...187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team. A bird colonel at 30, he became the youngest major general in the Army in 1956. Max Taylor, the Army's Chief of Staff, pinned his second star on him. As superintendent of West Point, Westmoreland helped put a modernized curriculum into effect, oversaw a major expansion program...
Died. Jacques Guerlain, 88, longtime co-director (with his late brother Pierre) of Maison Guerlain, a leisure-time collector of French impressionists, who in the family tradition personally oversaw the development of all new perfumes, among them such best-sellers as L'Heure Bleue. Mitsouko. Shalimar; after a long illness; in Paris...