Word: williams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover story on Georges Pompidou, De Gaulle's likeliest successor, goes beyond the present political turmoil within France to examine the reasons for the general's defeat, the mood of France in 1969 and the prospects for change. The story was written by Contributing Editor William Doerner and edited by Senior Editor Jason McManus, who, as TIME'S Paris-based Common Market correspondent from 1962 to 1964, covered Britain's first bid to join Europe and De Gaulle's abrupt rejection of that effort...
Last week he continued his guerrilla warfare by delaying senatorial consideration of William Brown, Richard Nixon's Republican nominee for the chairmanship of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. While the holding action will not prevent Brown's eventual confirmation, it did embarrass Nixon and anger Senate Republican Whip Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, the man who had first suggested Brown for the job. Further, Dirksen continued to block the appointment of Dr. John Knowles, director of Massachusetts General Hospital, as an Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Although HEW Secretary Robert Finch has argued for Knowles, Dirksen...
...fertilizer and farm machinery. Among the fair visitors was U.S. Ambassador to France Sargent Shriver, who also toured a Breton farm and then dropped by the local Franco-American institute to open an exhibition of works by five American painters (Lester Johnson, Harry Nadler, Robert Natkin, Frank Roth, William Wiley). Looking over the abstract canvases, Shriver cracked: "Every year brings artistic upheavals?and sometimes other kinds of upheavals too." If farms are becoming large, business is becoming still larger. French corporations are swiftly reorganizing their methods and management along American lines. Their executives are studying computer management, and computers...
...extent of the Jewish community's opposition to the talks was illustrated two weeks ago by a stormy session between Jewish leaders and Secretary of State William Rogers. Rogers assured them that "this Administration has rejected Soviet attempts to get the Israelis to withdraw from the occupied territories before a settlement is achieved." Unsatisfied with that, one Jewish leader angrily warned: "Don't think you can get our support, Mr. Secretary, for any kind of imposed settlement now being cooked up." Flustered and angry, Rogers ended the meeting. Word drifted back to the Jewish community that both...
...team gathered in Katmandu early last month, flew to the hill town of Pokhara, then hiked toward Dhaulagiri. By mid-April, they had established their first camp, at 12,400 ft., and were pressing on toward their next camp. Then came the first mishap: Deputy Leader William A. Read, of Moose, Wyo., was suddenly blinded in the right eye by pulmonary edema, which sometimes strikes men who go too high too fast. Read left to await evacuation...