Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Republic's John Osborne about who would be in any future Ford Administration Cabinet. While admitting the article's accuracy, Ford said that he thought the conversation was off the record. Ford would keep Henry Kissinger as Secretary of State, according to Osborne. He would also retain Secretary of Labor Peter Brennan, Interior Secretary Rogers Morton and HUD Secretary James Lynn. He is undecided about others, especially Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger. Ford fears that Schlesinger would not be effective in dealing with Congress...
...popular and commanding figure than the untried Snedden, 47, a former Perth newsboy who took over as Liberal leader after the 1972 elections. The race will be close. But most observers feel that the government, having recovered well from the Gair affair, starts out as a slight favorite to retain office...
...edition of the Harvard varsity heavyweight crew unveils itself today in a Stein Cup race against Brown on the Seekonk River in Providence. The Crimson will be shooting to retain the cup for the tenth consecutive year. Harvard has never lost...
...Cost of Living Council, which the Administration had wanted to retain if only as a largely powerless watchdog agency, apparently will go out of existence too. The House committee failed to act on a separate compromise bill to keep COLC alive; the overwhelming sentiment among committee members is that it should expire. After dawdling for weeks, the Administration made an eleventh-hour stab at saving COLC, but the move was too weak and came much too late. In the past six months or so, COLC has got many firms and industries, including autos, rubber and aluminum, to sign agreements...
...course this clod does not retain enough usable Latin to translate a tombstone, but he cannot admit it. What is excellent about the Nash translations, however, is not only that the English original is on the facing page (an indispensable prop to dignity) but that the poems are very short. This is a great advance over a famous similar confection of a few years back called Winnie IIle Pooh...