Word: robert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Consisting of Agnew, NASA Administrator Thomas O. Paine, Air Force Secretary Robert Seamans and Presidential Science Adviser Lee DuBridge...
Moral Sensitivity. Haynsworth's backers supported his contention, and even introduced a 1964 letter from then-Attorney General Robert Kennedy clearing him of any conflict of interest. Edward Kennedy's statement to the committee that the letter was based on incomplete information tended to lessen its impact. But Senate conservatives stuck to their position, and received support from at least two members of the influential American Bar Association. Lawrence Walsh, a former federal judge and deputy attorney general, and chairman of the A.B.A. Committee on the Federal Judiciary, told the Senate that he saw no conflict in Haynsworth...
...Chief Carl Clutts. The new chief, William Petersen, made some progress toward cooling the conflict when he took away the deputy status that had been granted the White Hats. The group disbanded, but resurfaced almost immediately in a new organization, the United Citizens for Community Action, whose leader, Lumberman Robert Cunningham, is considered excessively racist even by local white supremacists...
...Died. Robert Greenlease, 87, central figure in one of recent history's most spectacular kidnapings, who in 1953 paid $600,000 ransom for the return of his young son Bobby, only to learn that he had been brutally murdered before the ransom was delivered; of pneumonia; in Mission Hills, Kans...
...Alice will take Lewis Carroll's little girl on a drug trip. Cherry sets William Inge's Bus Stop to music, and Yellow Drum, based on Truman Capote's The Grass Harp, reiterates Broadway's faith that a weak play sounds better set to music. Robert Shaw will star in the hymnbook version of Elmer Gantry, Sinclair Lewis' novel about a corrupt evangelist. Fellini's film La Strada is being unspooled, as is All About Eve (stage title: Applause, Applause!), starring Lauren Bacall as Adam's fetching...