Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hemispheric relations; at his press conference two weeks ago, President Nixon ruefully admitted that imposing the Hickenlooper Amendment would have an anti-American domino effect all over South America. Therefore the President speedily agreed to all four considerations. Off to Lima last week flew John N. Irwin, 55, a Wall Street lawyer who served briefly in the Eisenhower Administration as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Affairs and who helped to negotiate new treaties with Panama covering the Panama Canal...
...most conspicuous in the Defense Department, where Deputy Secretary David Packard, the millionaire co-founder of California's Hewlett-Packard Co., is only one of half a dozen business executives in the inner circle. Among the many others at high levels is Nathaniel Samuels, former managing partner of Wall Street's Kuhn, Loeb, a deputy Under Secretary of State. The new Under Secretary of Labor is James Hodgson, a former Lockheed Aircraft vice president for industrial relations...
Crosby may well have underestimated Pan Am's muscle in Washington and on Wall Street. After some phone calls from the White House, the Commerce committees of both the House and the Senate began looking into the sources of Resorts' financing and whether the company might be fronting for some bigger organization in an attempt to take over Pan Am. Legislation has been introduced in Congress to prevent any outside company from acquiring more than 5% of any airline's stock without approval from the Civil Aeronautics Board...
...faculty body was broad enough to seriously challenge major administrative decisions. Divided into three branches, the undergraduate faculty, lacked even a joint senate in which to voice complaints. Arbitrary administration and an inactive faculty voice made hope of changing university policy in "normal" channels dismally dim. By then the wall was ready for the stick...
...HUGE mirror covered one wall of the room. A few chairs were scattered around. Two tables were cluttered with empty wine bottles plastic fruit, masks, and a rubber chicken. Several large black rubber mats lay on the floor -- where the 12 bodies were stretched...