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...Reginald Jones, chairman of General Electric Co., Jane Cahill Pfeiffer, chairman of NBC, and a dozen other captains of American industry and business. But last week Jimmy Carter finally found a nominee to succeed Juanita Kreps as Secretary of Commerce. His choice: Philip M. Klutznick, 72, a multimillionaire Chicago real estate developer. Said Klutznick: "I can't say I sought the job, but considering the problems that we face in the economic field, it's not easy to say no to the President...
...Klutznick's career has mostly been in real estate. In 1946, he began developing Park Forest, now a suburb of 30,000 people, in former cornfields about 30 miles south of Chicago. The town was regarded by urban experts as a model of intelligent planning. In 1968, Klutznick founded the Chicago-based Urban Investment and Development Co.; two years later the firm was sold to Aetna Life & Casualty for more than $52 million. His latest major project was Water Tower Place, a 74-story, $195 million showpiece on Chicago's North Michigan Avenue. The complex includes...
...Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine by Jaroslav Pelikan (Univ. of Chicago, 3 vols.). Another Lutheran's modern classic in an old-fashioned field; heavily documented, remarkably readable...
Jenkins' music is strongly influenced by the innovations of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), a Chicago-based musician's collective of which he has been a member since 1965. The best-known exponents of AACM art are Anthony Braxton and the members of the Art Ensemble of Chicago. The music on Space Minds, New Worlds, Survival of America has more to do with the sophisticated conceptual experiments of Braxton than with the visceral, intuitive, and often theatrical approach of the Art Ensemble...