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...bear-hugged by the President," beamed Jack Valenti last week. Valenti, now the head of the Motion Picture Association of America, used to experience such cordial acts all the time, when he was Johnson's confidant. After his White House days, such moments did not occur that often, and Valenti might have run the other way had he seen Nixon headed toward him. But when Ford traveled across Lafayette Park to see Candice Bergen in a picture about Teddy Roosevelt's days called The Wind and the Lion, Valenti's beaming puss was captured for the morning...
...shortly after. He wasn't surprised or hurt when James S. Duesenberry, chairman of the Economics Department, implied that Marglin and MacEwan were politicians, not economists, at a debate in April. The 700 spectators in the Science Center winced, but Marglin, who says he and Duesenberry are on "very cordial" terms, thought the debate was unexpectedly mild. He grimly acknowledges that he will be known as "Harvard's only tenured radical economist" for some time. But he shrugs, and jokes that he is "probably being called a lot worse things as well...
...Cordial Relations. An intensified Sino-Soviet rivalry is still a matter for speculation, however. With conditions in Southeast Asia in such flux, the U.S. cannot really disagree with the advice of Singapore's Lee to the non-Communist nations. They should, he said, establish "correct and, if possible, cordial relations" with the Communist regimes, but they should not give up on the U.S. until the dust has settled, and it is clear what the Communist takeover in Viet Nam means. At least one influential Tokyo paper, the Asahi Shimbun, believes that the U.S. may be even stronger with...
Attacks like "his intentions are good"--something heard a few times in the cordial exchange--did little to counter Shockley's well-woven arguments, which through years of practice have made his detractors powerless to pick out the individual strands of racist thought that criss-cross his speech...
...joint U.S.-Saudi commission set up last year to plan economic and technical cooperation. Fahd also serves as acting chairman of the Saudis' Petroleum Council, which drafts oil and oil-revenue policy for the King's consideration. (In this capacity he is said to have developed a cordial dislike for able Oil Minister Yamani.) For several months, the Saudis have been negotiating a complete takeover of Aramco, the giant petroleum-producing company, of which they now own 60%. Fahd has acknowledged the un favorable impact of high oil prices on Western economies. Nonetheless, Saudi Arabia is not likely...