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Vernon will replace Robert R Bowie. Dillon Professor of International Affairs, who retires as director of the CFIA on January 1 after 15 years of service. The controversial Huntington will take the second slot vacated in 1969 by Presidential Adviser Henry A. Kissinger...
...JACK DILLON...
...president of Doyle Dane Bernbach, does very convincingly is to convey what life in a big-time agency must be like: the daily routine, the steps up, sideways and down, the monotonous tides of taste and style, the Byzantine rules of client diplomacy. Though the comparison may seem incongruous, Dillon's approach to his professional world resembles Mystery Writer Dick Francis' to the ambience of horse racing (TIME, May 22). Both authors fairly radiate authenticity born of total immersion in the subject, a mania for getting detail right, and a sympathetic ear for the nuances and cliches...
...Westport way of saying hello. "What are you running here, a desert?" is a necessary preamble to ordering drinks. Even the boozehound on doubles has a wretched little snapper handy: "Two Scotch on the rocks, put them in the same glass, will you?" The irony is that Dillon is painting a verbal desert inhabited by people who live off words. His achievement, modest but real, is that he manages to populate the place with recognizable, sympathetic forms of life...
Directed by MICHAEL RITCHIE Screenplay by ROBERT DILLON...