Word: ashes
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Once the Vice President is installed, other changes of personnel are scheduled to follow. Top man to depart will be Roy Ash, director of the Office of Management and Budget. A prickly personality, Ash has won the respect of the President for his diligence, but he is too closely identified with the policies of the Nixon Administration to stay on in that job. He will be replaced, in fact, by another Nixon appointee, James Lynn, 47, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Despite his Nixonian background, Lynn has impressed friend and foe alike with his administrative ability and political know...
...cost of food stamps to families that qualify for them. Even if the White House gets everything that it is asking from Congress, the budget would still be $9 billion in deficit, but Administration officials are concerned that a tighter squeeze would damage an already weak economy. Says Roy Ash, director of the Office of Management and Budget: "The economy can change faster than the budget...
...nearby Jackson, Wyo., has begun a petition drive to control what she calls the new "scorched earth policy." Says she: "They have burned up one of the most beautiful areas in Teton County." And almost as bad, the fire is causing massive air pollution by sending carbon monoxide and ash into the atmosphere...
Died. Spyridon Marinates, 73, redoubtable dean of Greek archaeologists, who in 1967 unearthed the remains of an ancient city of 20,000 buried beneath volcanic ash on the Aegean island of Thera; of a skull fracture suffered in a fall at the Thera dig site. A center of ancient Minoan culture, Thera was practically wiped out overnight in a massive eruption about 1500 B.C., leading Marinates to surmise, though less strenuously than some of his colleagues, that its destruction was the basis for Plato's account of the lost island of Atlantis...
Simon's new 13-member board includes eight other Cabinet members, plus Ash, Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Alan Greenspan, William Eberle of the Council on International Economic Policy, and Ford Aide L. William Seidman. A millionaire accounting executive and Ford adviser from Grand Rapids, Seidman holds two vaguely defined but key positions. Ford made him executive director of Simon's board as well as his own chief White House economic coordinator. While the board may prove to be useful in coordinating policy, it could well be too large for effective decision making...