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Tensions had been building between the two men almost from the moment that Hamilton stepped into Geneen's job as day-to-day operational boss of the company. Reluctant to relinquish power, Geneen in 1975 had been given a two-year exemption from the company's policy of mandatory retirement at 65, but when he finally did step down, ostensibly to confine himself to his more general policy-making duties as board chairman, he pestered the new chief with critical memos, maneuvered to circumvent Hamilton's corporate decision making and sometimes even insulted him to his face...
...date for the Carter-Brezhnev summit, and the Administration wanted to enhance the impact by making both announcements in the same week. So the two negotiators drew out their final round over three meetings. At their last meeting on Monday, Vance told Dobrynin the U.S. was willing to relinquish the option of seven warheads on the Minuteman?an option the Pentagon had no intention of exercising anyway. Shortly afterward, Vance telephoned Harold Brown and asked him to order the Air Force to remove the shelters at Malmstrom. Soon after that, the two Secretaries met at the White House to announce...
Fine dished off two passes to Bob Allen for easy jumpers to lift Harvard into a 19-19 tie. Then Bob Hooft hit for two of his 18 points to secure a 25-23 lead that the Crimson did not relinquish for the rest of the contest...
...bigger and superior Crimson cagers jumped off to a commanding 15-4 advantage and did not relinquish the lead until late in the first half. The hustling Harvard defense kept their Northeastern adversaries at bay by applying a full-court press that forced a slew of Husky turnovers...
Meanwhile, the Shah continued his efforts to form a coalition government that would take I over from the military once calm was restored. There " were hints of a compromise that would enable the Shah eventually to relinquish many of his powers, but the government was not yet prepared to publicize the plan...