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With so much at stake, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Bob Packwood and House Ways and Means Committee Chief Dan Rostenkowski, who will probably be cochairmen of the conference, are mulling unconventional ways of choosing other conferees. Normally, the most senior members of the Senate and House committees would be selected, but Democrat Rostenkowski is considering appointing his closest allies, senior or junior. Republican Packwood, in contrast, talks of bringing along all 20 Senators on the Finance Committee to face as few as eight Representatives. That would not pack the conference, however, since all decisions have to be approved...
...some $200 million invested in fledgling American companies. Last year its return on current investment of $17 million was 35%. In July, its American chairman John P. Birkelund, 51, asked the Rothschilds for more control over the firm. Instead, the family sacked Birkelund, named Guy and Evelyn as cochairmen, and installed a new manager, Family Confidant Gilbert de Botton...
...capital as legal counsel for a U.S. Senate subcommittee on education. But come November, Peck's good boy hopes to win a seat in Congress from his home state of California. When he needs counsel, the aspiring politician huddles with a formidable pair of campaign cochairmen: Father Gregory and former California Governor Pat Brown...
...diplomats. This was borne out in Paris, where the P.L.O.'s de facto Foreign Minister, Farouk Kaddoumi, told TIME's Robert Kroon: "We will not object to going to Geneva as part of a single Arab delegation, provided we get separate invitations from the U.S. and Soviet cochairmen." One bar to P.L.O. participation is Washington's insistence that the organization endorse United Nations Resolution 242, which calls for "secure borders" for all nations in the area-an implicit recognition of Israel's right to exist. The P.L.O. has refused to accept the resolution, since it refers...
...celebrate the Digest's anniversary last week, President and Mrs. Nixon gave a white-tie dinner for 100 in the State Dining Room of the White House. The guests of honor were the Digest's formidable founders and cochairmen, DeWitt Wallace and his wife Lila, both 82. Wallace, son of a Presbyterian minister, married Lila Acheson some months before publication of the first issue, which they launched with $1,800. Now, 50 years later, DeWitt and Lila Wallace are probably still the most unforgettable characters either of them has ever...