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Reasonable Bets. C. Douglas Dillon, John Kennedy's Secretary of the Treasury and an Under Secretary of State under Eisenhower, was thought to be a favorite for Secretary of State. David Rockefeller, head of the Chase Manhattan Bank, and Arthur Burns, a chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Ike, were both reasonable bets for Secretary of the Treasury. Republican National Chairman Ray Bliss may become Postmaster General, which would let Nixon put his own man atop the G.O.P. apparatus. Michigan's Governor George Romney or Pennsylvania's Governor Raymond Shafer could be named Secretary...
...American colonies, Spain and France. Manned and equipped for all this, the little ship resembled the Swiss Family Robinson afloat. It was stuffed to the gunwales with pigs and goats (for eating), cats and parrots (to break the monotony), even a hunting greyhound named Lady who was used to chase down rare specimens of game...
...Chase N. Peterson '52, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aids to Students in Harvard College, attributed the unexpected increase to greater efficiency. "We made real efforts to streamline the mechanics of our program...
...McQueen film would be complete without a chase scene; Bullitt provides two. The first is a thumping, screeching sports-car slalom over the Frisco hills. The second, on foot, dodges between whining jets at the airport and ends with McQueen pulling a gun-strangely enough, considering the violence, for the first time in the picture-to cut down his quarry and win his little war. In the end, Vaughn skulks off in a car with the ironic bumper sticker: SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL POLICE. If they were all like Bullitt, everyone could and would...
...reason are allowed, and there are no time-outs or huddles. The game combines the continuous action of soccer and the crunching contact of football. Players wear a minimum of padding, the tackling is brutal, and pile-ons are tolerated until the runner gives up the ball and the chase resumes...