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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...
...federal efforts, both domestic and foreign, in this field. He named Treasury Secretary William Simon as chairman, with authority to serve as the President's spokesman on all economic matters. This appeared to be a coup for Simon; he emerged victorious in his long-running feud with Roy Ash, director of the Office of Management and Budget, for supremacy in economic policy...
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...
...Ash, the present head of the OMB, his future with Ford is limited by the fact that he made enemies by the way he accumulated and used power in Nixon's White House. Ash is expected to be replaced by someone who the President feels will work well with the new domestic adviser...
...last week staged its annual putdown of male chauvinism: Media Awards. Among the winners: a "Keep Her in Her Place" prize went to Singer Paul Anka for his tune Having My Baby and to Seals and Crofts for their Unborn Child. A "Discarded Older Woman" award was given to Ash Wednesday, the Elizabeth Taylor film of a middle-aged wife who undergoes a body-lift in order to keep her husband. Ad writers for National Airlines won a "Hall of Shame" award for their "Fly Me" campaign, and Playboy's Hugh Hefner, along with his competitors at Penthouse, Gallery...