Word: samuel
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...Cabinet positions. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird has made clear to reporters his intention to leave; New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, once a bitter Nixon critic, is rumored to be a possible successor. George Romney has announced his imminent departure as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Assistant Secretary Samuel Jackson, a black, might give blacks more hope for racially enlightened housing policies; Donald Rumsfeld, director of the Cost of Living Council, has been mentioned too. Also expected to leave, although there has been little talk of who might replace them, are Labor Secretary James Hodgson and Transportation Secretary John Volpe...
...heated debate over the banning of darts in Scottish pubs. Darting not only fostered "ne'er-do-wellism," a Scottish magistrate had ruled, but it was "a dangerous game, likely to attract some people who are not too steady in hand." Bloody nonsense, said Home Secretary Samuel Hoare, and the Commons supported him. If nothing else, he said, the game was socially commendable as "a distraction from the mere business of drinking." Sir Samuel's decree: Darts away...
Norris, who is also representing the 18 UMass-Amherst employees, said that in handing down his decision yesterday. Justice Samuel Tisdale suggested that the three cases might be consolidated into one action...
With the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals' quick and uncommonly forceful rejection yesterday of a limited agreement by Samuel L. Popkin, assistant professor of Government, there seem to be only two possible conclusions to the long-running series of trials: answers or prison...
...Samuel L. Popkin, assistant professor of Government, has filed a limited agreement to answer questions before a Boston grand jury investigating the production and distribution of the Pentagon Papers...