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Dunlop will have high-level help. The COLC will be advised by an elite committee of five union chiefs and five leaders of blue-ribbon corporations. Crusty AFL-CIO President Meany, who stormed off the Pay Board a year ago, has agreed to serve on the committee. So have Steelworkers President I.W. Abel, Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons, Seafarers President Paul Hall and UAW Chief Leonard Woodcock. The business members are Stephen Bechtel Jr., president of Bechtel Corp., a huge engineering and construction firm; Edward Carter, chairman of the Broadway-Hale department-store chain; R. Heath Larry, vice chairman...
...London guild shops during the 13th and 14th centuries. The Met possesses one rare example, the so-called Chichester-Constable chasuble, whose scenes (like the Adoration of the Magi, opposite) are embroidered with dense, flat expanses of metal-covered thread. Tin, mined in Cornwall, was drawn to a fine ribbon, coated with gold, wound around the silk and then worked into the red velvet ground with a gold or silver needle; steel needles, as known today, were not used until the 15th century...
...powerful City Manager William Corcoran, and especially on her pet issue of rent control. When Corcoran chose the rent control commissioners without consulting with the city councillors, Ackermann was first to attack him: "(He) showed contempt for the four councillors and members of the library board and the blue-ribbon panel on a rent control administrator by not consulting with them," she said at the time...
President Bok's blue-ribbon Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility received a boost this week when Dean Whitlock accepted a plan that provided a paintable way for students to be elected to the Committee...
...other presidential candidate's wife in memory. Almost as if a white kid glove had been thrown at her feet, Pat Nixon seems to have risen to Eleanor's challenge. In the 1968 campaign, Pat left her husband's entourage only once-for a quick ribbon-cutting ceremony in Reno. This year, uncharacteristically stepping out from the President's shadow, the First Lady undertook the most extended solo campaign trip of her long career-a 5,500-mile, six-day tour that took her to seven states and exposed her to rough weather and even rougher...