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Barnaby was enthusiastic about his team's play during the vacation tour. He split his squad into two equally balanced seven-man teams, and they compiled a 6-2-1 record against some tough competition--Georgia, Presbyterian, Georgia Tech, and Clemson...
...weeks, Washington has been waiting for Lyndon Johnson to fill a looming vacancy on the seven-man Federal Reserve Board, expecting his choice to signal whether the board will stress easy or tighter money. Last week, Johnson took the trodden path: he reappointed James Louis Robertson, 56, whose term officially expired in January, to another 14-year term as governor. Robertson agrees with Johnson that the thriving U.S. economy is not yet in a boom and thus needs no hike in interest rates to restrain its growth. Says he: "I don't intend to begin fighting inflation until inflation...
With five judgeships to fill, Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton in an unusual, administrative action has borrowed a leaf from the Missouri Plan by appointing a seven-man (three lawyers, three laymen, one judge) Judicial Nominating Commission to recommend candidates (all vacancies are in Philadelphia). The judges Scranton finally chooses will face the voters when their terms run out, but they can expect the bipartisan support now given to most Philadelphia judges. By specifying that the nominating commission is to list three names for each vacancy, Scranton should avoid the unhappy quandary of New York's Mayor Wagner...
...Johnson called an emergency early morning conference of top State Department, defense and intelligence advisers. While it was going on, a frantic telephone call from the U.S. charge in Panama informed him that the embassy might be overrun; Johnson personally ordered all secret papers burned. He then sent a seven-man mission, headed by Thomas C. Mann, Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, and Cyrus Vance, the new Deputy Secretary of Defense, racing down to Panama by jet. Finally, he put in a personal call to President Chiari, urging calm and arguing that "there...
...sweep of the ruling, few men actually will be fired. The board decreed that all those with more than two years' service should be retained as firemen or given other jobs. This gesture did not satisfy the two union members on the seven-man board, and they plan to contest the decision in the U.S. courts. Even if the courts uphold the board, the decision is binding for only two years. In addition, union negotiations for wage hikes, scheduled to start this week, have a Feb. 24 deadline. Unless the railroads give in some on the issue of work...