Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DECEPTIVE atmosphere pervades Washington whenever one Administration gives way to another. Power seems to ebb steadily until the incumbents appear to be little more than caretakers. Yet, until Jan. 20, Johnson and his lieutenants retain considerable authority. By exercising it, the Democrats can create commitments-and problems -that will affect Richard Nixon for months or perhaps years to come...
Help for Hungary. The new boys have added vitality to the still overly inbred firm. Headquartered in London's City, the British Rothschilds retain their prestigious positions as gold broker to the Bank of England and substantial dealers in foreign exchange. Since 1966, they have entered industrial ventures with Britain's National Provincial Bank and with four Continental firms, including Baron Guy's Paris bank and Cousin Edmond's* Banque Privee in Geneva. In May, the firm assembled a syndicate that lent $15 million to Hungary, the first direct credit by Western lenders to an East...
...Nixon will also retain Richard Helms, 55, as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The first CIA career man to head the agency, Helms has earned a reputation as a quiet, impartial professional during his ZVi years as director. He has not hesitated to express dissenting views within Administration councils (including pessimism about Viet Nam), and is noted for his candor in private congressional hearings. Except for the furor in early 1967 over the funding of private organizations, a practice Helms inherited, he has managed to keep the agency out of public controversy...
Those who lived through the late '30s retain a particular fondness for the books that he wrote then. But the generation of the '60s knows Steinbeck's works less readily as the celebrations of the land and the common folk that his contemporaries once found them. Perhaps appropriately-for he wrote with a cinematic clarity-Steinbeck's vision of America is most frequently glimpsed today in late-show reruns of The Grapes of Wrath or East of Eden. His literary heritage has been to summon up a sort of vivid, brittle nostalgia, and one tends...
...members of the Corporation communicate little if at all with the Faculty, yet they retain important powers, such as the naming of the new President...