Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marquis Childs-who had been cued in advance by an Administration aide-asked the right question. "Mr. President, there are a number of vacancies in the State Department," said Childs. "Can you give any indication of when those will be filled?" With calculated casualness, Johnson replied: "Well, one became vacant yesterday-the Under Secretary, Mr. Ball-and that will be filled right...
...personnel in the State Department demonstrate the Administration's difficulty in recruiting top policy-making officials from outside the government. Professor Eugene Rostow, who will leave Yale Law School to become Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, was the only outsider named to fill one of the three vacant positions. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach will succeed George Ball as Under-Secretary of State and Foy Kohler, the American ambassador to the Soviet Union, will be the new Deputy Under-Secretary for Political Affairs...
...stores, serve as typists, cashiers and bookkeepers for commercial firms, work beside whites at the lathes in auto plants and steel mills. The nation's gold mines are negotiating with the white miners' union for permission to put blacks into 2,000 skilled jobs that are now vacant. Africans have already taken over more than 10,000 traditionally white jobs on the government railroads, and are rapidly replacing whites behind the wheels of heavy trucks...
...leader of more than 820,000 Jews-450,000 of them in Britain-he is recognized by British protocol as one of the country's premier spiritual lords: at state occasions he sits with his peers, the Primate of All England and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster. Vacant since the retirement of Dr. Israel Brodie in May 1965, the post will now be filled by an Orthodox rabbi from the U.S.: Immanuel Jakobovits, 45, of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Synagogue...
...Herbert Bowden, moved to the Ministry for Commonwealth Affairs, replacing Arthur Bottomley, whose inability to settle the Rhodesian crisis made him some thing of a liability. Still, Bottomley was not expelled from the Cabinet; instead he was shifted to the Ministry for Overseas Development, a post that was made vacant by moving Anthony Greenwood to Minister of Housing...