Word: seriousness
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After his embroilment in the Nixon Administration's only serious appointment hassle, Walter Hickel was doubly confirmed: both in his new job as Secretary of the Interior and in his new respect for the power of disgruntled conservationists. Last week, in his first important action, Hickel named as his undersecretary a man who may well set the tone for his department. He is Russell E. Train, chairman of Nixon's pre-inaugural task force on resources and environment, and an internationally esteemed conservationist. The appointment drew praise from nearly every quarter, including the old Administration. Said Stewart Udall...
...last week, the gathering and interpretation of intelligence was vital to American survival in a threatening world. He modestly described his risky, arcane calling as a "craft" but pursued it with an unrelenting enthusiasm and expertise that helped make the Central Intelligence Agency - for all its adverse publicity and serious misjudgments -the world's most efficient espionage organization. British Major-General Sir Kenneth Strong, former head of intelligence for the Supreme Allied Command in Europe, says of Dulles: "No more acute intellect has served in the profession before or since...
...atmosphere. If any got through, back-up Sprint missiles would be launched to catch them seconds before they reached their target. The Pentagon contends that the resulting blast would be negligible, but radioactive fallout would be a danger. Critics argue that the Chinese will still not be a serious threat in the 1970s and that the $5 billion Sentinel network is the first step toward a $50 billion "heavy" system designed to protect the U.S. against a Soviet missile attack...
...major appointments is the Rev. Philip Potter, a West Indian Methodist, as director of the Division of World Missions and Evangelism. Echoing the dissatisfaction of other ecclesiastics from Asia, Africa and Latin America, Potter said in Tulsa last week: "Both the capitalist countries and the Socialist countries have serious weakness. Under our freedom in the West, the minority has the freedom to rot. We in the Third World don't want to be faced with either/or. We want to find our own way." Within the council it is generally felt that a cleric from a developing country-such...
...Times reported last week. In fact, Dr. Leonard Gelber, the principal, credits much of the present calm at Bushwick to a "human relations" committee of students, teachers and administrators that he established last spring as a sounding board for student demands. The very fact that those demands were given serious consideration, let alone granted, seems to have kept Bushwick cool. For the present, at least, it has escaped the angry confrontation for confrontation's sake that has become familiar across the country...