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Other management tactics consisted of a housecleaning of some "fifth" spots in the store, he said, and raises for "a select...

Author: By Mark C. Frazier, | Title: A Vote Is Abandoned At the Coop | 1/19/1973 | See Source »

...done then because the need had passed or a project cost less than had been expected. Nixon has used this device as an expanded veto power, impounding some $6 billion in water-pollution control money and $5 billion in highway funds. Moreover, he asked Congress for the right to select which appropriations he could reject, in an effort to keep spending within $250 billion this fiscal year and the House meekly agreed. Mathias claims the House did so because it saw the matter "as a mere housekeeping item," while Ribicoff termed the Senate's rejection of this request...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Crack in the Constitution | 1/15/1973 | See Source »

...early death deprived her. Most important of these was Virginia's affair of the heart with Vita Sackville-West, wife of Harold Nicholson. Bell thankfully cannot conclude that their intimacy involved physical love, though Virginia's reputation as an "aging Sapphist' no doubt derives from her deep attachments to select females. In another relationship with a rival female author. Katharine Mansfield, however. Virginia exposed the malice and narcissism native to her character, qualities she shared with her father. Their friendship was compounded on both sides of feelings of jealousy and attraction. Woolf, with her deep sense of class, occasionally considered...

Author: By Gwen Kinkead, | Title: Queen of the Highbrows | 1/10/1973 | See Source »

Truman's relations with Franklin Roosevelt were always ambivalent. Though F.D.R. would later select Truman as his Vice President, in 1940, Margaret reveals, he tried to dump Truman from the U.S. Senate. Harry resisted and defended his relationship to Kansas City's Pendergast machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Little Touch of Harry | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

WITHOUT QUESTION, the election procedure Dean Whitlock adopted last week for the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) is a step forward, no matter how tentative. Though authorized personally to select undergraduate representatives with the advice of student-Faculty committees. Whitlock chose a somewhat more democratic plan, granting undergraduates at least an indirect voice in the selection of their own spokesmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The ACSR Vote | 12/12/1972 | See Source »

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