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...presidential audit, Woodworth initially assigned six experts, later increased the number to 22, which is practically his entire staff. He oversaw the research, wrote the report, and takes responsibility for its conclusions, though he consulted with the rest of the staff before reaching them. Woodworth was not pleased to get the job in the first place. He explained: "It bothered me a great deal. I didn't like the responsibility?I was aware of the implications. But I felt that the very basis of our voluntary tax system depended on it. I also knew that this report was bound...
...Died. Donald C. McGraw, 76,who joined his father's publishing company in 1919, eventually became McGraw-Hill's president, board chairman and executive committee chairman, and during the past two decades oversaw the company's growth in annual revenues from $67 million to $470 million; in Boynton Beach...
...social and economic problems of the Chinese-Americans were managed internally. Chinatowns were organized with institutions that gave protection and aid to immigrants. Mutual cooperation, based on village ties and the extended family, made many business ventures possible. The Benevolent Association, comprised of representatives of community and family organizations, oversaw much of the community's activities...
Hohimer was first fingered early last year by Leo Rugendorf, 58, a Mafia operative who oversaw the gang's activities. He reached Chicago Sun-Times Reporter Art Petacque and reported that Hohimer, shortly after the murder, had said to him: "They'll get me for the Valerie Percy murder. The girl woke up, and I hit her on the top of the head with a pistol." After Petacque interviewed Rugendorf, he arranged for him to be questioned by state police investigators. Early this year, Rugendorf, near death from heart disease and diabetes, again fingered Hohimer, this time from...
...Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban notes that if Israel maintained her post-1967 borders until 1990, Arabs would constitute forty per cent of the total population. The Israelis will have to reach a compromise with the Arab element in their country. The abolition of the special military government which oversaw Arab affairs was a first step in that direction. The Israelis will have to take other steps, such as permitting some of the exiled Palestinians to return in installments. It would be unrealistic to expect Israel to welcome the Palestinian leaders Yasir Arafat and George Habash with open arms...