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Married. Mitt Romney, 22, youngest son of the HUD Secretary and a sophomore at Brigham Young University; and Ann Davies, 19, daughter of a Detroit industrialist and a Mormon convert; in Salt Lake City...
...urging of George Romney, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Nixon three weeks ago appointed a task force to recommend remedies. Last week's action is aimed at increasing timber output from federal lands by about 10%, but the Administration clearly regards that as only a stopgap. Testifying at a Senate hearing, Romney last week warned that spiraling lumber prices jeopardize the goal of raising residential construction to 2,600,000 units a year under the Housing Act of 1968. The former auto executive and Michigan Governor criticized Democrat Robert Weaver, his predecessor at HUD, for failing...
Executive Roster. As in previous Administrations, Democrat and Republican alike, Nixon has placed a large number of businessmen high in the Government. His twelve-man Cabinet includes seven former bankers, corporate lawyers and business executives: John Mitchell, David Kennedy, George Romney, John Volpe, Walter Hickel, Maurice Stans and Winton Blount. Many businessmen now occupy sub-Cabinet posts that often were filled by professors and civil servants...
...Romney M. Moseley D-'71, spokesman for the black students, said the meeting was "the best thing that ever happened to the Harvard Divinity School." He said he was pleased that the committee members had come to a better understanding of the black viewpoint because of the meeting. The original report will be submitted to the Divinity School faculty tomorrow...
...Georgia. After CORE Director Roy Innis had left, Evans curtly dismissed his proposals for separation of the races. "I think," he said, "that Mr. Innis' basic racial philosophy makes very little sense. I don't see how it could work." Secretary of Housing and Urban Development George Romney got off easily, as did Presidential Assistant Daniel P. Moynihan. "Bob," Evans said, "I think those fat-cat Republicans at the Union League Club would probably blanch if they watched Dr. Moynihan talking the way he did to us." Moynihan had proposed a $9 billion federal grant for family allowances...