Word: requests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advisory groups. He has handed up proposals on 18 domestic situations for Nixon and the Cabinet to consider. These, he indicated, could form the basis of a legislative program, although that will not come for at least a month or two. So far, Nixon's only official request of Congress has been for the confirmation of his appointees. However, the White House has withdrawn the still-unratified nominations of 485 appointees made in the final months of the Johnson Administration, and rescinded Nixon's predecessor's disputatious award of coveted transpacific routes to five airlines (see BUSINESS...
...secret documents, Bucher installed an electric paper shredder and a small incinerator. The burner was totally inadequate for the amount of classified material Pueblo would carry. But Bucher could not know that because he was not even cleared for access to the ship's supersecret "research" compartment. His request for either a twin-mount 20-mm. or single-mount 40-mm. cannons to defend his vessel went unheeded by Navy brass. Instead, he was issued two .50-cal. machine guns that would be useless against another ship. The basic problem, said Bucher, was money. The original...
Married. Jim Ryun, 21, world's fastest miler (record: 3 min. 51.1 sec.), now winding up his college career at the University of Kansas; and Anne Snider, 21, Kansas State cheerleader whose introduction to Jim came when he refused her autograph request after setting a mile world record in 1966; in Bay Village, Ohio...
...result of my correspondence, and provided this bill reaches the appropriate Senate and House Committees, Raymond Underwood, legal counsel to Senator Hatfield, will request my appearance as a witness...
Possible Partners. Eastern had high hopes of winning rich new routes after a Civil Aeronautics Board examiner recommended approval last April of its request for runs to Hawaii and Asia. But Eastern's lobbying in Washington did not measure up to that of other carriers, most of which engaged high-power political bigwigs to plead their cases. When the matter reached the White House, President Johnson divided new Pacific passenger routes among five airlines, but bypassed Eastern altogether (TIME, Dec. 27). That left Eastern Chairman Floyd Hall committed to buy $48 million worth of stretched DC-8s, which...