Word: chairmanship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indeed, as it celebrated its first anniversary last week, it seemed odd that until a year ago, the U.S. had no single agency to police the safety of its largest single industry-transportation. Under the chairmanship of Joseph O'Connell Jr., 62, a tax lawyer who has been in and out of government since 1933, the safety board has not only imposed some order on the safety work of Washington's raft of regulatory agencies; it has also confounded the skeptics who thought it unequal to its herculean task...
...case of Ward 9, the overwhelming victory of the student slate could encourage people to run against Hickey. The Committee makeup has worried Hickey enough to make him abortively attempt to win the chairmanship for himself, even though he finished behind all 12 opponents...
Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government, will resign his chairmanship of the Social Studies Department next year in order to resume a full teaching load...
Because Richard Nixon is becoming an ever more substantial somebody, there was some movement toward his camp from other factions of the G.O.P. Alaska Governor Walter Hickel, who has described himself as a Rockefeller Republican, accepted the Western states' co-chairmanship of the Nixon organization. Massachusetts Representative Bradford Morse, a founder of the liberal Republican Wednesday Group, said he, too, was enlisting. "This idea that Nixon is a Goldwater conservative is ridiculous," said Morse. "Nixon is a moderate." In Minnesota, where Rockefeller was previously regarded as relatively strong, G.O.P. Chairman George Thiss predicted that Nixon now would carry most...
...middle age is setting in, relatively speaking. Last week, at 41, Peterson climbed upstairs to Bell & Howell's chairmanship, vacant since 1966 when Illinois Republican Percy campaigned for the U.S. Senate. Into Peterson's old office moved Robert A. Charpie, formerly president of Union Carbide's electronics division and, at 42, something of a corporate veteran...