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...House. For three years he walked the narrow line-without a serious misstep-between suspicious environmentalists and hostile businessmen. He compromised in his most publicized struggle, giving automobile manufacturers a one-year extension of a 1975 deadline for the installation of antipollution devices on cars while slapping on tough interim standards. Nonetheless, his tenacious fight and his insistence that presidential aides stay out of it enhanced his prestige. Last April Nixon named him acting director of the FBI, whose morale had been shattered by L. Patrick Gray's controversial tenure as acting director. Finally, Ruckelshaus was persuaded to become...
...peripheral, the Middle East is a critical area of contention. Prolonged active warfare between two sides, each supplied by a great power, could easily involve the great powers themselves in war. Supplying Israel with weaponry in measured response to Russian resupply of the Arabs may be an essential interim step to ensure Israel's survival, but it is not in the American interest to underwrite blindly Israel's own notion of sufficient victory or readiness to settle. The latent dangers in protracted fighting would quickly become evident to Americans if the Israelis at some point were...
...former All-Big Ten football guard from Northwestern, maintains that any of Dart Industries' divisions are for sale "if the price is right." Conversely, he is looking for profitable acquisitions but pledges that they will be "low profile" so as not to rile the Justice Department. In the interim he has designed an unusual management structure: Chairman Dart declines to appoint a president, holding that position himself and relying on seven group presidents who enjoy great autonomy. Says the blunt-spoken Justin Dart: "I don't have time to louse up the operating groups...
...Faculty Senate Council on April 5 called upon Silber to establish "an interim system for the hearing and determination...of charges of alleged misconduct against students and members of the faculty of the university." The Council's resolution requested an "alternative to exclusive reliance upon injunctive or relief from the courts or police intervention." Second-rate Westerns used to call this "taking the law into your own hands." Roughly translated: Liberal courts are not always effective for social control...
After examining the list of people who had applied for the interim job, Sanders was impressed enough with Jarvis to request that he get the assistant's position...