Word: panels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tonight's panel will discuss model cities and will feature Ralph Taylor, former assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and James Q. Wilson, professor of Government, as speakers...
...picture took six weeks to complete, from the first ink drawing on a gesso-covered wood panel to the final delicate strokes of ocher tempera. The result is a memorable portrait of a girl with a look-wary, contained, but challenging-that speaks of the courage and the ordeal of those who, in Frost's phrase, have taken the road "less traveled...
...assistant director of sanitation for the League of Red Cross Societies and a member of the sanitary engineering panel of the World Health Organization, Fair helped to make American knowledge of sanitation available to less-developed areas of the world. He also served as a member of the National Advisory Health Council of the U. S. Public Health Service...
...unions -the Machinists, Electricians, Boilermakers and Sheet Metal Workers-have been negotiating fruitlessly with the railroads since December 1968. The talks dragged on through last summer, and an October strike was avoided only when President Nixon, exercising his authority under the 1926 Railway Labor Act, appointed a special mediation panel and ordered a 60-day cooling-off period. For a while, the bargaining seemed productive. Then the unions turned down a settlement offer...
...earthquake-prone floor of the Santa Barbara Channel is such a geologically unstable morass of cracks and fissures that it may be difficult to prevent future oil-well blowouts. Moreover, Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel recently approved a resumption of drilling in the channel. Reason: a special presidential panel recommended further drilling to relieve the pressure that pushed the oil to the surface. While some critics dispute this approach, a consortium of four oil companies (Union, Gulf, Mobil, Texaco), soon to be joined by Sun Oil, continues to pump 30,000 barrels of oil a day from the waters...