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Brown gets along well with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. The three keep in touch via daily phone chats and weekly lunches in an attempt, as an aide puts it, "to prove that the infighting of the Nixon and Ford era does not have to be the norm." At meetings on U.S. SALT policy, says a State Department negotiator, "Brown is the dominating figure. He knows so incredibly much about nuclear weapons and the strategic balance that everyone defers to him. When the President isn't there, Brown is the de facto chairman...
...President Ford's prompting, Congress last year eased the embargo against Turkey by allowing it to buy up to $125 million in military equipment, but grant aid was forbidden. Last week Jimmy Carter tried to ease the embargo still further-but Congress said no. The House International Relations Committee rejected an Administration proposal that Turkey be allowed to buy $50 million worth of F-4 Phantoms on credit. Congress has refused to act on longer military-aid proposals amounting to $1 billion over four years...
Enter Schmücker, one of the few top German executives who once was a factory hand himself. The son of an assembly-line worker for Ford of Germany, Schmücker quit school at 16 to go into the plant himself and spent two decades working his way up through the ranks to the top job (with time out to serve as a Wehrmacht lieutenant on the Russian front). Shortly after becoming head of sales for Ford of Germany, he left to take over the tottering Rheinstahl Steel Company, and by designing and executing a major reorganization, made...
Auto companies did best of all; the four in the list raised their median profit by 138.5%, despite another huge loss for American Motors. General Motors regained its historic role as the No. 1 profitmaker,* topping Exxon $2.9 billion to $2.6 billion, and Ford bumped Texaco out of third place in sales, $28.8 billion to $26.5 billion. Oil companies, however, did well too. Exxon led in sales for the third straight year, with $48.6 billion; Gulf Oil (sales: $16.5 billion) knocked IBM ($16.3 billion) out of seventh place, and Shell ($9.2 billion) displaced U.S. Steel ($8.6 billion...
Musical Saw. Star-Child was composed on a Ford Foundation grant for the Philharmonic and for Irene Gubrud, who sang the soprano part splendidly while supported by crutches (be cause of an old back injury). The score is Crumb's first for full orchestra since Echoes of Time and the River, which won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1968. A professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Crumb, 47, is a visionary who has shaken orchestration up in recent years with an ingenious knack for producing new sounds with old instruments and homely domestic objects. The grimly surrealistic Black Angels...