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...decisions that the new Administration cannot defer is the selection of people to run and represent the Government. Last week Richard Nixon made several appointments: >Charles W. Yost, 61, an author and retired career diplomat, became the surprise choice as Ambassador to the United Nations. Yost is a Democrat, but not the sort of prominent party man that Nixon had been seeking to give his Administration a bipartisan touch. Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy and Sargent Shriver all turned down the assignment, which traditionally has had more prestige-and problems-than power. Shriver had seemed the likeliest prospect, but is understood...
Adulterated Efforts. As an Assistant Under Secretary of Labor in the Kennedy-Johnson Administration and author of the controversial Moynihan Report, which infuriated many black leaders with its study of the Negro family's plight, he played an important role in creating programs that were adopted by the Great Society. Unhappy with what has become of them, he charges that the efforts were all too often adulterated by politicians, "middleclass professional reformers, elite academics and intellectuals...
Manchester's book is most detailed when the author evaluates the Krupp responsibility for encouraging Hitler and triggering World War II. As early as 1920, Gustav had put his most talented armorers secretly to work on the weapons that ultimately were used in 1939. But it was Gustav's lonely, introspective son, Alfried, who bears most blame. He joined the Nazi Party and the SS while still a student in 1931, and took over from his senescent father in 1943. During the war, he showed no qualms about confiscating plants in occupied lands, impressing 100,000 slave laborers...
Millen Brand is like an English major who minored in psychology and never feels quite sure that it shouldn't have been the other way around. Author of The Outward Room and coauthor of the screenplay for The Snake Pit, he has served long enough as a psychiatric aide to become vocationally confused about his main role as a journeyman novelist. Brand's raw material- case histories detailing the unorthodox treatment of psychotics in the late 1940s- obsesses him at the expense of his craft. Anything approaching the tragic finally escapes him, but in this best-selling novel...
...Free," the author of this disjointed but somehow engaging nonbook, is in reality Abbie Hoffman, 32, the wire-haired co-founder of the yippie movement. A self-described "nice Jewish boy from The Bronx" who attended Brandeis and Berkeley, then worked in Mississippi for S.N.C.C. before dropping into hippiedom, Hoffman has now produced a slender, acid-infused account of the rise of the nonviolent yippies. The book trips along almost gaily on currents of aphorism and imagination. Between its often outrageous put-ons and put-downs lies much that is of significance to American youth-and those adults who would...