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...Secretary of Transportation), Alaska Governor Walter Hickel (Interior), and Chamber of Commerce President Winton Blount (Postmaster General). The best-known figure in the group, Michigan Governor George Romney (Housing and Urban Development), was head of American Motors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A NEW ADMINISTRATION TAKES SHAPE | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

...will almost certainly reaffirm Italy's commitment to NATO, call for reform of university and school laws and press for increases in worker pensions. Rumor's skill in allotting posts across the coalition's entire range assures him of support from about 360 of the chamber's 630 deputies. All his agility as a compromiser may prove useless, however, unless he can quickly produce the social reforms that Italy so urgently needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Rumor Has It | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

...hundred years ago, Jean Jacques Rousseau described peace parleys as "a species of general diets where one deliberates in common as to whether the table will be round or square, whether the chamber will have more or fewer doors, whether such and such a plenipotentiary will have his face or his back turned toward the window, whether such and such another will take two steps more or less while making a visit, and upon a thousand other questions of equal importance, uselessly debated for the past three centuries." Things have scarcely changed since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Those Maddening Modalities | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...most effective violin teacher in the country," and he certainly has the alumni to prove it. Most of the brightest young soloists in the U.S. are Galamian products; Itzhak Perlman, Young Uck Kim, Jaime Laredo, Paul Zukofsky and James Oliver Buswell IV. In addition, Galamian has trained top chamber players like Arnold Steinhardt of the Guarneri Quartet and orchestra concertmasters like David Nadien of the New York Philharmonic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Violinists: Cry Now, Play Later | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...only one combustion chamber, one propellant injector and one nozzle. All these must operate reliably to avoid disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poised for the Leap | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

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