Word: williams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...January, might be coaxed back in a Humphrey Administration. Robert McNamara and Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes are mentioned interchangeably for the departments of Transportation and of Housing and Urban Development. Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris is being considered for Agriculture or Interior along with North Dakota's Democratic Governor William Guy. California's Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel is also a possibility for Agriculture. A Humphrey Cabinet would almost certainly contain Republicans, and might include a woman, perhaps Patricia Roberts Harris, former Ambassador to Luxembourg...
...Nixon camp: Dampen all that Cabinet speculation until after Nov. 5, lest it seem presumptuous. Still, it is generally believed that Nixon is so interested in foreign affairs that he may not want an overly independent Secretary of State. In that case, he might pick Pennsylvania's William Scranton, who recently trekked to Europe on a fact-finding tour for him. If Nixon finally decides on an individualist for Foggy Bottom, the odds favor Douglas Dillon, who would have been Secretary of State in 1960 had Nixon won. Scranton might then become Ambassador to the United Nations. McGeorge Bundy...
Democratic control would also leave the key House committees in familiar hands. Arkansas' Wilbur Mills would chair Ways and Means; Texas' George Mahon, Appropriations; South Carolina's Mendel Rivers, Armed Services; and Mississippi's William Colmer, Rules...
Continuing censorship, the military's failure to fulfill its promise of popular elections, the denial of political rights to hundreds of politicians and intellectuals have turned the public sour and left the country edgy. Here is a report on the situation from TIME Correspondent William Forbis...
Gernreich observes: "It is the designers of accessories who are now ascendant." One case in point is Adolfo, 35. Long exclusively a high-fashion milliner, he has lately added a line of interchangeable boutique clothes, which he sells to the likes of Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper, Jacqueline Kennedy and Mrs. William Paley. They take his "bits and pieces"-harem pants, long midi coats, shirts, vests and skirts-and combine them into what Adolfo calls "the anti-Establishment way of dressing for the Establishment...