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...something of a tradition at Exxon that the men who reached the top jobs there could trace their careers back to more or less rough-and-tumble beginnings in the oilfields. That was certainly true of big (6 ft. 2 in.), craggy, Canadian-born John Kenneth Jamieson, Exxon's chairman since 1969, who started out in the oil business in the 1930s as a laborer in a small refinery in Calgary, Alberta. Last week's announcement that Jamieson, now 64, will retire on Aug. 1 signals a subtle change in style at the colossus of the major...
...droves; the institute's journal, edited by Todd's wife Nancy, has a growing circulation. Money has begun to come in from foundations like the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc. A New Alchemy Institute West has been set up in Pescadero, Calif., south of San Francisco. The Canadian-born Todd plans to build a new ark on Prince Edward Island, Canada; another offshoot is being started up in Costa Rica, where McLarney is now looking for other varieties offish to raise...
...member staff (average salary: about $15,000). A separate budget of $200,000 pays for an informative newsletter, Near East Report, which is distributed to some 30,000 subscribers, including Congressmen and other policymakers. The staff was directed since its founding in 1954 by I.L. ("Si") Kenen, 70, a Canadian-born lawyer and former Cleveland journalist who often downplayed his influence...
Remarkable Tension. The more satisfying groups of work are by Canadian-born Dorothea Rockburne, Holland's Jan Dibbets and New York's Brice Marden. Rockburne's art is neither painting nor collage nor relief, but it has some of the qualities of all three-coupled with the kind of inventive intelligence one expects from one of Rauschenberg's contemporaries at the legendary, now defunct Black Mountain College. Starting with a rectangle of linen exactly 68 in. by 178 in., she folds, sizes and gessoes it until it becomes a geometrical plaque. "I had wanted," she writes...
Robert J. Fitzpatrick, 34, a Canadian-born, onetime Jesuit seminarian, holds a master's degree in medieval French and oscillates between Johns Hopkins University, where he is dean of students, and city hall, where he is Baltimore's youngest city councilman. "More people should spend a limited time in public office, rather than a lifetime," says Fitzpatrick, a liberal Democrat. His goal: to be a U.S. Senator and a college president-not simultaneously...