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...successor likely to do much better. As DuBridge's replacement in the $42,500-a-year job, Nixon picked Dr. Edward E. David Jr., 45, the director of communications systems research at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. A relative unknown in scientific circles, David says that he will try to bring the benefits of science and technology more directly to the people. But before he can effectively close that gap, he will have to bridge another: the one between the scientists and the Administration they feel is neglecting them...
Fear and Frustration. Bill Compton (Dennis Patrick) is a $60,000-a-year Manhattan advertising executive whose young daughter (Susan Sarandon) has run off to live with an East Village junkie. She is not there when her father goes to her apartment, but he gets into an argument with her boy friend and inadvertently beats him to death. He staggers into a local bar where Joe (Peter Boyle), a $160-a-week welder, is holding forth. When Joe finally screams, "I'd like to kill one of them!", Compton looks up and whispers, "I just did." Joe later realizes...
...envelopes, or "bags," used to package heroin are paraphernalia. So, too, are the legal, harmless powders used to dilute the drug, usually quinine, dextrose, lactose or mannite. According to a House Select Committee on Crime investigation in New York City, peddling paraphernalia has grown into a $5,000,000-a-year business...
Into the Public Eye. Born in Montreal, Rinfret attended Maine and New York universities, won a Ph.D. in political economics from France's University of Dijon. In 1951, he joined the Manhattan consulting firm of Lionel D. Edie as a $5,750-a-year junior economist, rose to chairman in 1964. He began to move into the public eye after President Johnson, searching for ways to defend his own policies in 1964, quoted one of Rinfret's bullish surveys of industry plans for expansion as evidence that the economy was then turning up. Johnson stumbled over the pronunciation...
Blumenthal's formal nomination, which should come within the next several weeks, will draw him from Marine Corps Reserve boot camp at Parris Island, S.C. If approved by the Senate for his $38,000-a-year job, he will be the youngest man to hold a Presidential appointment at that level. Blumenthal is 24 years...