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...agency of the Treasury Department, the Secret Service was actually founded in 1865 to chase down counterfeiters, an activity it still pursues, but since the assassination of William Mc-Kinley in 1901 the Service has also been responsible for protecting the President. The agents assigned to the White House (average annual salary: $17,000) suffer through long periods of boredom when the President is not on display. But when he goes on a trip, whether to San Clemente or Peking, they work under acute tension, always braced, like sprinters on their starting blocks, for the sound of a shot...
...Secret Service agents have also acted to tidy up the President's political landscape. During the protest demonstrations over Viet Nam, when the White House felt it was under siege, agents were summoned to chase away a solitary demonstrator who had caught -and offended-the eye of the President by appearing in Lafayette Park across the street from the White House...
...Yale graduate, Baird worked at Chase Manhattan and Smith Barney & Co., an investment banking firm. He became general manager of Western American in 1967 when it was formed by four banks, each representing a separate world market area, and soon built its assets from $8.4 million to $ 1.6 billion. If Baird can duplicate that remarkable financial performance at Occidental, he should become a prime candidate eventually to succeed Hammer. But for the present, as one financier close to Occidental puts it, Hammer "hasn't the slightest intention of relinquishing control to Baird. He will rely...
Although Lowell House's resurgence has been the highlight of the intramural season intramurals at Harvard mean more than a chase after the Straus trophy. They represent important athletic opportunity for some Harvard students...
American domination of South Vietnam, which continues now, is the outgrowth of these conditions. Major U.S. multinational investor-- particularly those associated with the Rockefeller-Chase Manhattan-Standard Oil circle-- have taken over or dominate regional trade associations, supra-national companies or allegedly neutral international development agencies which promote capitalist investment by resolving intra-capitalist conflicts, preparing feasability studies, and urging local ruling classes to provide incentives for investment...