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...lineup. Like NBC and ABC, Steinberg's network devotes a lot of time to news, public affairs and respectable, "cultural" programs (Death of a Salesman, the Young People's Concerts series). But CBS's regular programming emphasizes situation comedy and old-wave adventure; the Lucy Show, Comer Pyle and Gunsmoke, all more or less tell "linear" stories. The NBC and ABC standard schedules could be called slightly more McLuhanesque-/ Spy, Man From U.N.C.L.E., Dating Game, N.Y.P.D.; their murky story lines are sub merged in frantic action or personal interaction...
Knudsen, who has headed both the Chevrolet and Pontiac divisions, is the son of a popular former G.M. president. He lacks Cole's flair, would be more in the Donner-Roche tradition. Rollert, a Buick alumnus, is considered a comer, but he has been an executive vice president only since February 1966, and it would be a surprise if he were leapfrogged over the others...
...level responsibility for the Middle East was bucked from official to official. Nicholas Katzenbach looked into Washington's policy when he became Under Secretary last September, quickly passed the problem to Newcomer Eugene Rostow, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, who thereupon turned it over to a newer comer, his deputy, Foy Kohler...
...life, Thomas H. Moorer has been a comer. He was valedictorian of his high school class at 15, then had to wait two years before he could pick up his appointment and sail through Annapolis in the class of '33. At Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked, he survived to pilot Navy reconnaissance planes again and pick up a fistful of medals, from the Purple Heart to the Distinguished Flying Cross. Since then, he has had some of the toughest jobs in the Navy, including commander of the Seventh Fleet and, most recently, the tricky triple-hatted post...
...with a book he had written in 15 months, Mailer was famous. Sinclair Lewis called him the greatest writer of his generation. Mailer was a comer, the odds-on favorite for the title, but he seemed to have drained himself too early.) The only book he was now equipped to write, he remarked, was "The Naked and the Dead Go to Japan." But the mark of the great, or the would-be great, is that they can't do the same thing twice. Both of Mailer's next two novels, Barbary Shore and The Deer Park, struck out with...