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TIME'S publisher from April 1960 to February 1967 and now a senior vice president of Time Inc., will become an executive vice president with responsibility for magazine publishing. The overall direction of the company will remain with Board Chairman Andrew Heiskell, who assumes the additional responsibility of chief executive officer, and Editor-in-Chief Hedley Donovan, who retains full authority for all editorial operations...
...simply foolhardy," says Laird, "not to make maximum use of the great talent, wisdom and experience available through the Joint Chiefs of Staff and within the services." Before his press conference last week, Laird thoroughly briefed General Earle Wheeler, J.C.S. chairman, on what was to be announced. The first thing the Secretary did after the conference was to give Wheeler a full rundown of the question-and-answer segment. Says the general: "The tenor of doing business in the Pentagon has changed, and it is a productive change...
...innocence, but in vain. Premier Golda Meir convoked an emergency Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem to offer help in repairing the mosque (the offer was spurned) and to appoint an investigating commission that included two Arab dignitaries (local Moslems named their own board of inquiry). Sheik Hilmi Al-Muh-tasib, chairman of Jerusalem's Moslem Council, quickly summoned newsmen to pointedly announce that "a blond, freckled man dressed in khaki, who did not appear to be a Palestinian," had been seen fleeing from the mosque just before the fire. That was all the information that Arab propagandists needed. Cairo Radio...
...electricity. By 1979, the nation's utilities must increase their generating capacity from 300 million kilowatts to more than one billion. They must build at least 250 large new power plants. Meanwhile, they confront rising revulsion against the pollution caused by such plants. Says Lee White, the outgoing chairman of the Federal Power Commission: "The major problem that the industry faces is the sharply increased concern of the U.S. over environmental considerations...
...more agonizingly aware of this than Charles Franklin Luce, chairman of New York City's Consolidated Edison, the world's biggest electric utility. Before coming to Con Ed. Luce dealt with environmental problems as Under Secretary of the Interior. An ardent outdoorsman, he now finds himself cast as a villain by New Yorkers, who have long regarded Con Edison as a blatant polluter. Last week they were incensed over Con Ed's request for a 14% rate increase, its second in three years. Con Ed is in financial trouble, much of it aggravated by a longstanding inefficiency...