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...White House waiters plied his friends with food and drink, and soft music wafted over the waters of Palm Beach. "You'd better enjoy it now," said one observer to Salinger, "because when you go out of office, it's all over." Salinger grinned widely, tapped the ash off his cigar, and replied: "Do I ever know...
...departure is unlikely to change Administration economic policy much. The White House did not immediately announce a successor, but the leading candidate by far is Energy Czar William E. Simon (the only other names being mentioned are Roy Ash, director of the Office of Management and Budget, and John Dunlop, head of the Cost of Living Council). Simon is both a free-market advocate and an ardent admirer of Shultz, who persuaded him to come to Washington 15 months ago as No. 2 man at Treasury. Simon still nominally holds that post even while running the Federal Energy Office...
...successor as Treasury chief could quickly re-establish Shultz's primacy in economic policymaking. Shultz has been not only Treasury Secretary but an assistant to Nixon and the Administration's first formally designated economic coordinator. Even if his successor also gets those titles, other Administration figures like Ash and Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz are sure to grab for some of the authority that Shultz exercised...
There are, however, a few surprising sources of anti-Simon sentiment: some lower-level aides at the White House and in the Office of Management and Budget resent Simon's sudden prominence and independent ways (he recently said that OMB Director Roy Ash should keep his "cotton-picking hands off energy policy). Some of them have taken to making snide wisecracks about Simon: "When the President appointed an energy czar, he didn't know he was getting Ivan the Terrible...
During the week before Ash Wednesday in Cologne, couples dressed only in bathrobes were frequently seen dining at fashionable restaurants. Others necked unashamedly in the streets. The city's early-morning hours were often disturbed by beery revelers dressed in animal skins and horned helmets marching through the streets, singing drinking songs and playing band instruments. Thousands attended one or several of Cologne's 54 costume balls (admission ranging from $2 to $12). There married couples have traditionally separated, each partner seeking his or her own fun. Rhineland courts usually reject adultery committed during carnival as grounds...