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GORDON C. STRACHAN, 30. A former junior member of the Nixon-Mitchell law firm in New York, Strachan was Haldeman's chief aide in the White House. He later became general counsel of the U.S. Information Agency as part of a White House effort to exert greater control over the federal bureaucracy...
...books filled with the ancient snapshot, the static portrait and the severe documentary. Some of them are a bit special: albums of Victorian children and antique pornography. More than nostalgia or a desire for escape is at work, however. Portraits, especially of anonymous folk from the otherwise dead past, exert a peculiar fascination. One broods over them, foolishly nodding and speculating about what the people were really Like and the lives they must have...
...Incoming Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez has pledged to take over all foreign oil concessions, including plants and equipment, long before present agreements expire in 1983. The Saudi Arabian government has already bought 25% of Aramco, has negotiated an agreement to take over 51% by 1982, and will probably exert control much sooner...
Since New York is still the cultural capital of the world, the Times's critics understandably exert formidable power. Theater Critic Clive Barnes can easily kill a Broadway play with a negative notice, which may be the reason why many readers find his prolix reviews generally far too kind. Ada Louise Huxtable, now part of the nine-member editorial board, is probably the most influential commentator on architecture in the country. The Times has also broadened its cultural reviews to include regular coverage of rock and other outgrowths of the counterculture that would not have made its pages...
...allots its sparse treasury selectively, and for PBS that is an accepted practice. But a great rift erupted between PBS and CPB early this year when the CPB itself attempted to exert creative control over programming. In the past, CPB had been a patron of the television arts, and a rubber stamp for the creative talents of professionals at PBS. But Loomis sought to bypass PBS and its "Eastern liberal" point of view. CPB directors voted unamimously to begin the financing and distribution of specific programs to affiliates. PBS was to be limited to the operation of technical facilities...