Word: panels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...investigations of the U.S. intelligence community are gradually moving ahead. Every week a presidential panel hears secret testimony about the Central Intelligence Agency's domestic activities. That probe was scheduled to conclude April 4, but the commission's chairman, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, said last week that he will ask for an extension of several weeks...
...United States Information Agency (USIA) have shared that duty. Last week a 21-member, foundation-supported study group* headed by Frank Stanton, former vice chairman of CBS, suggested that the USIA be abolished. After 98 interviews and ten months of deliberation, all but three members of the panel decided that there was too much duplication of effort between State and the USIA. The panel's major recommendations to Congress...
...Under Secretary of State for Policy Information would be members of its board of overseers, along with three private citizens. Voice journalists have complained lately that USIA, out of deference to "the U.S.-U.S.S.R." détente, has censored their stories reporting on Communist dissidents (TIME, Dec. 16). The panel recommendations were intended to insulate the Voice from future Government pressure...
...sounds like an Oriental Hearst at San Simeon, but the vast ostentation of the Momoyama warlords had a political aim: to dazzle visitors and cow supplicants. In private they practiced a cult of austerity the essence of which lay in the tea ceremony: the rough bowl, the unpainted wooden panel, the natural stone which, in manifesting sabi (simplicity or emptiness), embodied the ideals of the samurai class by repeating, in the aesthetic sphere, the discipline and frugality of a warrior's life...
...After the school board in the quiet desert town of Apple Valley, Calif., voted to fire high school Gym Teacher Lou Zivkovich last fall because he had appeared nude in the centerfold of Playgirl magazine, Zivkovich, 33, appealed the decision. Last week a state appeals panel admonished him for a "mistake in judgment," but ruled that he could not be fired. Zivkovich, who received $1,000 plus an expenses-paid weekend in Hawaii for his extracurricular modeling job, called the ruling a "national victory" for the rights of teachers...