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...Lewis Engman, the earnest chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, has proposed a ban on TV advertising that entices kids to send in for notions. Engman worries that such a sales pitch is unfair to children in part because it capitalizes "upon their propensity to confuse reality and fantasy...
Kirkpatrick will probably be succeeded by Lewis Engman, an aide to White House Domestic Policy Chief John Ehrlichman. There is speculation in Washington that Engman, who helped prepare the Administration's since-rejected proposal for a value-added tax, may not continue the FTC's strong proconsumer orientation. But the job sometimes makes the man. After drawing some initial criticism, a number of Nixon appointees have turned out to be eager and effective regulators. Among them: Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman William J. Casey (who is moving to the State Department), Environmental Protection Administrator William Ruckelshaus-and Kirkpatrick...
...General Motors Institute to earn while he learned-a month in a Cadillac plant, a month in class studying mechanical engineering. Cadillac thought him so bright that it hired him as a full-time engineer in 1933. Cole celebrated by marrying his home-town sweetheart, blonde, blue-eyed Esther Engman...