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...order to "establish more efficient channels for student complaint," the committee recommended that the HCUA establish a permanent watchdog group to act as a representative of the student body and "to make a detailed analysis of the financial statements of each agency." The HSA agreed to work with such a group...
...morning he appeared in the dining room of the Hotel Janpath at 8-"If my staff people have any problems, they can find me there." Three-quarters of an hour later, he was in his office to begin a day's work that combined the functions of guru, watchdog, troubleshooter, father confessor and cheerleader. Visser 't Hooft is especially pleased with the smooth sailing of the Russian Orthodox into the World Council; increasing the Orthodox representation was his longstanding concern...
Died. Robert Walter Scott McLeod, 47. State Department security watchdog under John Foster Dulles and Ambassador to Ireland from 1957 to 1961, an ex-FBI man who forced the dismissal or resignation of 300 State Department employees in his first year at Foggy Bottom, ultimately became so much of a storm center that Dwight Eisenhower sent him off to Dublin after a bitter Senate confirmation debate in which McLeod was denounced by Pennsylvania's Democratic Senator Joseph Clark as a "symbol of the witch hunter" of the McCarthy era; of a heart attack; in Concord...
...Authority for the Federal Trade Commission, watchdog of advertising, to issue restraining orders directly instead of having to go through the courts...
...REGULATORY AGENCIES. A major source of the business community's sense of harassment is the new aggressiveness of the watchdog agencies. Some railroadmen see nationalization coming on the heels of the Interstate Commerce Commission's recommendation for federal subsidies for passenger lines. New Chairman Joseph C. Swidler of the Federal Power Com mission, describing himself as "consumer-minded," says that he will cut natural-gas rates even if customers do not petition for reduction. Groans one Western corporation chief about the choice of Careerist Paul Dixon to head the Federal Trade Commission: "Kennedy appointed a career prosecutor...