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McCall has instituted a series of changes in the operation of the IAB since taking over as director of facilities in July, and in defending his new policies, McCall points to the "non-system system" he inherited from his predecessor, former head football coach John Yoviscin. NEWS PROFILE...
Ginn was assistant director at the Office of Graduate and Career Plans, OCS-OCL's predecessor, for two years and was acting senior tutor at Quincy House for a year. He has also been a member of the Board of Freshman Advisers since...
...prosecution grew out of the same federal effort to clean up Maryland politics that drove Spiro Agnew, Mandel's predecessor as Governor, from the vice presidency. A total of seven Maryland officials have been convicted in federal prosecutions since 1973. In early August, former Congressman Edward A. Garmatz was indicted for bribe taking; Mandel's trial, ironically enough, was held in downtown Baltimore's new Edward A. Garmatz Federal Court Building...
Miraculously, it all worked perfectly. Thanks largely to the efforts of Major General George W. Goethals and his predecessor as chief engineer, John Stevens, the canal was not only completed on time, in 1914, but for $23 million less than had been estimated by the U.S. in 1907. By the time the steamship Ancon sailed through the canal in the official grand opening on Aug. 15,1914, World War I had just erupted and the celebrations were subdued. Even so, the canal was?and is?one of mankind's most memorable achievements, the moon shot...
...prevention order, and directed Chicago authorities to meet with black leaders and arrange for a march in Marquette Park. A grateful coalition leader, the Rev. A.I. Dunlap, said he would consider parading on a weekday, in order to reduce the potential for violent counterdemonstrations. Sounding very like his predecessor, Richard Daley, Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic says "I don't think it has anything to do with color," and adds "marching has turned out to be a regressive type of thing...