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...Rockefeller wins the Republican nomination in the biggest surprise since Herbert Hoover won two Democratic primaries in 1920 before announcing that he was a Republican. Stuck for a running mate, Rockefeller drafts fellow New Yorker Nixon (experience counts). Nixon moves back to Whittier, Calif., near the site of the old family grocery. His name becomes No. 780,414 on a currently circulating petition to recall Governor Ronald Reagan, thus allowing the measure to go to a vote...
With more than 13,000 films waiting to be rerun on television, old movies have become America's National Museum of Pop Art, the biggest repository of cultural artifacts outside the Smithsonian Institution. On TV, of course, the movies are tiny, like warriors who have become trophies of a head-shrinking tribe. Despite this diminution-despite faded prints and commercials perforating climactic scenes-old flicks remain more compelling than most of the shows that surround them. Films may go in one era and out the other, but even the flattest Tarzan epic or the corniest war saga offers...
...notable absentee was Paul Mellon, 61, only son of Uncle Andy, who is the single biggest shareholder in the Mellon enterprises - principally Alcoa, Carborundum Co., Koppers Co. and Gulf Oil. His duties as president of the National Gallery and director of the Bollingen Foundation (grants to scholars in the humanities) and the Old Dominion Foundation (education, the arts, mental health and conservation) seemed more imperative than any family reunion...
...stores will be hard pressed to match President Byron Jay's own express checkout. Three weeks ago, only 13 months before reaching A. & P.'s mandatory retirement age of 65, Jay ended a 41-year, up-from-clerk career with the nation's biggest food chain by 1) chucking the $151,000-a-year job he had held since 1964 and 2) packing himself off to deep seclusion...
Costly Distinction. Such steps have yet to fatten A. &P.'s slim profit margin, which, at 1% of sales, is far narrower than the 1.5% achieved by Safeway, the second-biggest chain. Many stockholders, particularly heirs of Founder George Huntington Hartford, who started the chain 109 years ago, place much of the blame on a foundation set up by Hartford's sons, John A. and George L. Hartford, which holds the biggest single block (34%) of A. & P. stock. They maintain that the management-dominated foundation (eight of ten trustees are present or past A. & P. executives...