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...presidential commission headed by Litton Industries President Roy Ash recommended to Nixon that seven departments (Labor, Agriculture, Transportation, Interior, Commerce, HEW and HUD) be merged into four: Natural Resources, Human Resources, Economic Development and Community Development. The proposal was made at a tune when the Democratic Congress felt resentful of Nixon's aggressive assertion of presidential powers, constitutional and otherwise...
...Ash plan still has merit. Just as the armed forces are more coherently served by a Secretary of Defense than by rival Cabinet officers representing the Army, Navy and Air Force, the various economic interests represented by the seven departments (which grew to nine under Carter) would benefit by coordination. Indeed, the number of "superdepartments" might be reduced even further by merging Economic Development with Community Development...
...year veteran of the game who is exactly 15 years old. Brooke Shields (see accompanying story) has been on the cover of Vogue three times in the past year, shrieking with chic. Brooke Shields, coltish and flustered but so beautiful that strong men forget to flick their cigar ash, is on the runway of Rome introducing Valentino's spring collection. Brooke on TV implies in those naughty ads for Calvin Klein jeans ("Wanna know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing") that she does not wear underpants. According to Casablancas, the Manhattan-born Spanish-Frenchman who had the impudence...
...diary. In her letters she is determinedly light, at times kittenish; but she gives full play to her quick eye, sharp tongue and mocking sense of social comedy. An unfavorite cousin's face reminds her of a "mandrill's behind." T.S. Eliot's poem Ash Wednesday she greets as "Tom's hard-boiled egg." She describes avoiding an encounter with Ethel Smyth, the doughty, pipe-smoking feminist and composer who became infatuated with her: "I could not face her, though she was passing our door. Her letters sound as if she was in a furious droning...
Almost anywhere in the , wedge-shaped 400-km² (150 sq. mi.) blast zone stretching north of the mountain, all appears to be devastated, a sea of gray volcanic ash. Geologists and biologists believe it will be decades before life comes back to the mountain's highest slopes. Yet lower down, in what looks like a totally forbidding, colorless world, life, incredibly, is returning. Deer tracks have been spotted on otherwise barren slopes; new growths of ferns and skunk cabbage are poking through the ash. Tree sprouts are "coming up beautifully," says John Allen, 72, geology professor emeritus...