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...easier in such times. Now this relative simplicity has been succeeded by confusion and pessimism, a sense that the real problems of the world are so technical and complex that the traditional way of running things is inadequate. Perhaps for the first time, even Americans, the world's foremost solvers of technical problems, have been afflicted by this feeling. "Governments are trying to do a 20th century job with 19th century methodology," says University of Pittsburgh Historian Joseph Malone...
Ivan Chermayeff, 42. One of the nation's foremost designers, he has literally left his mark around the world. He created the interiors and landscaping for the U.S. Pavilion at Montreal's Expo 67, and is doing the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library's displays. Seeking to put personality into corporate identity, he has designed trade logos, exhibitions and lobbies for such clients as Pan American World Airways, Mobil Oil, the Chase Manhattan Bank. Born in London, he lived in Canada, graduated from Yale, is now a partner in design firms in New York and Cambridge, Mass...
Paul Macavoy, 40, professor of economics at M.I.T., is probably the nation's foremost expert on Government regulation of private industry. A Phi Beta Kappa from Maine's Bates College with degrees in economics from Yale, Macavoy argues that regulation is inefficient and retards production. He favors instead a gradual end to regulations over the price and quality of service, feeling that these should be the province of private industry. While this position disturbs some fellow Democrats who generally favor regulation, his service
...Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev a Cadillac. At their second meeting last year in Washington, Nixon gave him a Lincoln Continental. Last week, back in Moscow for the third summit in as many years, Nixon brought with him a sporty Chevrolet Monte Carlo for the Soviet Union's foremost automobile enthusiast. In a curious sense, the gift of the cheaper auto,* which Brezhnev had specifically requested after reading that it was Motor Trend magazine's "car of the year," was an appropriate symbol of the more relaxed relations between Washington and Moscow and the metamorphosis of summits from...
...father had founded the church in which she was slain. Members of the Ebenezer Baptist Church and most of us who worked closely with her son, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., knew her as Mother King. It was not difficult to call her mother. She was first and foremost, and with great pride, a wife and mother. She was a black woman of unspoiled ideals, living a life of example and challenge that gave meaning to the latent and elusive concepts of love and respect for human worth...