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...Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Shultz and his staff will be expected to superintend overall execution of Government programs. Besides hunting down superfluous activities, OMB will assume the staff and functions of the present Bureau of the Budget, including its efficiency-expert role. Mayo had been expected to head the enlarged operation. The fact that he was bypassed is significant. Mayo, a skilled economist with nearly 20 years of federal service, is not an innovator, a policymaker or an advocate who can fight effectively for his point of view. Shultz is all three. Further, Mayo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Nixon: Boss in a Bad Year | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

...F.L.N. side, the spokesman was Dr. Chawki Mostefai, 42, the general delegate of the F.L.N. to the Algerian Provisional Executive, which will superintend the July 1 referendum on the country's independence. Dr. Mostefai also found himself continually sandbagged by more relentless Moslem colleagues. When the accord was published, promising 1) amnesty for S.A.O. killers, and 2) enlistment of Europeans in the Force Locale, the new Algerian police, there was vigorous dissent from F.L.N. headquarters in Tunis. Vice Premier Mohammed ben Bella was against any deal with the S.A.O. Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda&3151;engaged in a private power struggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: Rearguard Action for Terror | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

...achieve "efficient unified commands." The President's program was essentially the one previewed by Labor Secretary Jim Mitchell before the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in Atlantic City last fall (TIME, Dec. 16). Its principal weapon against labor racketeering and corruption would be compulsory public filing of union records. To superintend this filing, Ike asked Congress to establish a new U.S. Commissioner of Labor Reports-with subpoena powers-to be appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The commissioner would see to it that unions file annual financial reports and at least once every four years certify that their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Reorganization Man | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

Actually, the moose like to live where men and machines do, and frequently nuzzle up to Alaskan oil derricks to sidewalk-superintend the drilling. Instead of being driven out of the civilized areas, they are rapidly multiplying. Their greatest enemy is not the oilmen, but the Alaska Railroad-a creature of the conservationist Interior Department-which last winter killed 366 moose on the tracks. For those moose who prefer desolation to civilization, there are vast areas of ideal scrub brush and timberland outside Kenai untouched by man or derrick. In fact, only 10% of Alaska's moose live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Wildcatting v. Wildlife | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...Zhukov about, and Zhukov dutifully read speeches handed to him by Zampolit officers. He did not gag when Stalin took credit for the great victories. The Zampolit organization had grown to huge proportions and was again the terror of the Red army. Into East Germany came Commissar Serov, to superintend the liquidation of dissidents, the dismantling of factories and museums, the kidnaping of scientists and the setting-up of spy schools. Politically, the Red army was back where it started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Dragoon's Day | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

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