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With Jan. 20 and its problems almost upon him, Nixon was determined last week to enjoy a final period of privacy and relaxation. After giving Daughter Julie in marriage to David Eisenhower, the President-elect left frigid, flu-ridden New York (he had a mild case himself) for Key Biscayne, Fla. He has purchased adjacent homes there that will serve both as a winter White House and a legal residence; the Nixons are planning to sell their cooperative apartment on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. Apart from a single meeting with foreign-policy advisers in Florida late in the week...
Skeptical of the maze of domestic programs created by the Great Society, the President-elect hopes to shift the emphasis from federal action to private initiative in antipoverty efforts and slum rehabilitation. Even Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat who as Assistant Secretary of Labor helped create the anti-poverty program and who will serve Nixon as a White House assistant specializing in urban problems, is highly critical of the way the present setup works. In a book to be published this winter, Moynihan calls the current Administration's approach "sloppy" and misguided (see box, page...
...girl belongs to one of Florida's wealthiest families. Her father Robert and his brothers own and run the $65 million Deltona Corp., one of the biggest home-building companies in the U.S. The three brothers are friends of Florida's Senator George Smathers and of President-elect Richard Nixon, and they own the Key Biscayne Hotel where Nixon has often stayed...
...longer the ebullient prodigy of postwar German politics, but hardly mellowed in his political ambitions, Strauss seemed to be gradually maneuvering himself into position to unseat and possibly succeed the Chancellor he helped elect. Although Kiesinger took Strauss into his coalition Cabinet as Finance Minister, there is little closeness between the two men. In office, Kiesinger has shown a growing penchant for procrastination and indecisiveness, qualities Strauss dislikes and does not share. Kiesinger's recent suggestion of a prolonged coalition with the Social Democrats also runs counter to Strauss's highly developed partisan instincts. Increasingly reluctant to take...
Everybody felt the pangs of inflation. The effects showed up in the form of $2-an-hour baby sitters, $3 men's haircuts and $72-a-day hospital rooms. Housewives complained about $1.99-a-lb. sirloin, and the President-elect of the U.S. yearned to find a good 50? hamburger. Price increases were so pervasive that not a single component of the Government's price index declined. Transportation rose 4.2%, food 4.5%, apparel 6.6%, medical care 7.2%. By Washington's official reckoning, which probably understates the cost of living in many large cities, it now takes...