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...seven-man commission, composed of representatives of law firms, business and Government, was appointed in 1968 by President Johnson and continued by President Nixon. Because it has broad bipartisan support, the group's findings have drawn considerable attention in Washington. They may lead to Government safety controls to replace industry's self-regulation, which the commission sees as "legally unenforceable and patently inadequate." A sampling of the findings...
Brewer, a calm, effective but unexciting Governor, must bear some of the blame for his loss. After shocking Wallace by topping him in the seven-man Democratic primary last month, Brewer campaigned for the runoff in such a low-keyed manner that Wallace grabbed all of the attention. A racial moderate -from the Southern viewpoint-Brewer had no desire to embrace the black vote openly or to engage in racial arguments with Wallace. His strategy was a lofty "Mr. Clean" approach that even ruled out attacks on the previous Wallace administrations. "You can't fight Wallace with one hand...
More importantly, Parker places a higher value upon rowing one's best rather than winning. In fact, when his seven-man hurt his hand so severely before the Stein Cup race last April that he was a questionable starter, Parker allegedly told his crew that he would seriously consider forfeiting the regatta, one the Crimson was sure to win easily, if the oarsmen could not compete. He was that concerned about the shell staying together as a unit...
...Situated near Val d'Isère (Killy's home and the site of last winter's disastrous avalanche), it offers 37 miles of breathtaking and challenging slopes. The atmosphere is, to say the least, clubby. Anyone buying into Les Arcs must be approved by a seven-man board of investors. The result is a homogeneous clientele roughly between the ages of 30 and 45, drawn mostly from publishing and the arts. Although it is primarily designed for serious skiers, it also offers a discothèque with a swimming pool attached, and a theater where...
...April 21 program will feature a seven-man symposium: Dr. Barry Commner, an ecologist at Washington University; Massachusetts State Senator John J. Moakley; Senator Edmund Muskie (D-Maine); Theodore Levitt, professor of Business Administration: George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology; Dr. George Wiley, president of the Welfare Rights Association; and Malcolm Rifkin, a Washington city planner...