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...unexpectedness, the major performers were well rehearsed. The majority--an alliance of two "good government" C.C.A. councillors and three independents--had already agreed on Curry. The City Manager himself had premonitions: a week before the special session, he made a dosperate bid for peace with the hostile councillors. He appointed the brother of Councillor Edward A. Sullivan to the water board (although Sullivan said later his brother was number one man on Civil Service rating and had been stymied for six months because of Atkinson's refusal to appoint him) and Mayor Deguglielmo's brother to the Housing Authority...
Although no one has been named to follow Gropius as chairman, it is expected that Dean Hudnut will shortly appoint a temporary head of the department...
...spent abroad with his wife; they created a sensation by traveling second-class on the "Europa." A CRIMSON of that same era reported that Conant's outstanding characteristic was his shyness; as substantiation it reported the following conversation between Conant and a man he was calling up to appoint his secretary...
...unexpectedness, the major performers were well rehearsed. The majority--an alliance of two "good government" C.C.A. councillors and three independents--had already agreed on Curry. The City Manager himself had premonitions: a week before the special session, he made a dosperate bid for peace with the hostile councillors. He appointed the brother of Councillor Edward A. Sullivan to the water board (although Sullivan said later his brother was number one man on Civil Service rating and had been stymied for six months because of Atkinson's refusal to appoint him) and Mayor Deguglielmo's brother to the Housing Authority...
Spain has been urging the Bonn government to appoint a German ambassador to Spain to act as the official representative of these men, as well as some 10,000 other Germans in Spain. For two years, Spain has had a diplomatic representative at Bonn. Postwar Germany has not forgiven Franco for his sale, at knockdown prices, of Germany's prewar assets in Spain (Madrid's German hospital went for I peseta), and the expropriation of German commercial firms (Siemens, Zeiss. Bayer, etc.) that were once the backbone of Spain's electrical, chemical and optical industries...