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Biggest Threat. The first meeting failed to name a campaign director. Laird was everybody's first choice, but he declined, preferring to stay on as a troubleshooter for The Reader's Digest Association Inc. Another possibility is Donald Rumsfeld, White House chief of staff. Rumsfeld might be reluctant to give up his powerful post for the rigors of managing a tough campaign, but if he thought the President was in serious danger of losing, he would probably make the plunge. George Bush, chief of the U.S. liaison office hi Peking, has also been mentioned. An adroit U.S. Ambassador...
BREACH OF FAITH by THEODORE H. WHITE 356 pages. Atheneum-Reader's Digest Press...
...Including Pollster George Gallup, International Lawyer Rita Hauser, Reader's Digest Editor in Chief Hobart Lewis, former USIA Director Leonard Marks, and Author James Michener...
...outbreak of the Second World War. He believed the war in Europe was "fratricidal" in that neither side was entirely right or wrong, and he advocated that Western nations stand together as a wall against infiltration by those "of inferior blood" (as he wrote in 1940 in Readers Digest). There should be no confusion about whom he was referring to Lindbergh often spoke of the contrast between "European Germany and Asiatic Russia...
That statement is rather typical of much Digest prose and opinion. However, if the prosperous magazine (circ. 18.8 million) wanted to convey its views on economics to its readers, why do it in ads paid for by very interested parties? Digest Managing Editor Edward T. Thompson sought to explain: "It is not reasonable to run an article on American business every month. We wouldn't run that many...