Word: petersons
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...fact, only three vice presidents took office along with Bok; the fourth, Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52, becomes vice president for Alumni Relations this month. Their performances, while drawing some criticism, have suited Bok's overall designs: the University's resources are better accounted for and more closely guarded. And as their familiarity with their jobs increases, Bok intends to let them "act more independently," thereby freeing himself for other concerns...
...Council, after a long and arduous search, is now considering two candidates for the job--Neil Peterson and James Johnson. Although the fact that one is white and the other black has injected an unnecessary racial factor into the debate, the fact is that both men are well qualified and either would be a real asset to the City government...
However, it is Peterson who twice won the enthusiastic endorsement of community leaders after being interviewed with other candidates by a citizens' panel on March...
Councillor Henry F. Owens III is the only one of the CCA-endorsed Councillors who refuses to vote for Peterson. Yet at a special Council meeting on May 4, Owens said that if his candidate, Johnson, were allowed an interview with the citizens' panel and those citizens still preferred Peterson, then he too would vote for Peterson...
Indeed, Connally's blustery, sometimes abrasive ways, coupled with his ready access to a usually inaccessible President, made him highly unpopular with more than a few in the Nixon circle. At a press awards dinner last week, Secretary of Commerce Pete Peterson wryly alluded to Connally's penchant for poaching in other than Treasury preserves. Said Peterson: "Almost everybody is sorry to see him go. The State Department is having a going-away party; it is now in its 32nd hour...