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...only nine candidates in the race: Kissinger, former Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal, 55, Xerox Chairman C. Peter McColough, 58, Citibank Chairman Walter Wriston, 61, Economist Marina von Neumann Whitman, 46, Chicago Sun-Times Publisher James Hoge, 45, former State Department Official William Rogers, 54, Washington Post Columnist Philip Geyelin, 58, and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, 64. But when the vote was announced last week-gasp -Kissinger was dead last. Said one council member: "It just stood out on the ballot-a chance to vote against Kissinger. It was too good to pass up." Council President Winston Lord...
...Philip Geyelin, the Washington Post's Pulitzer-prizewinning editorialist, often said that Meg Greenfield, his deputy, was "so good she can run the page without me." Little did he know. Last week Greenfield, 48, replaced Geyelin, 56, as editor of the paper's editorial page, one of the most influential soapboxes in American journalism...
...abrupt ouster of Geyelin (pronounced Jay-lin) came as a stunning surprise to him and nearly everyone else at the Post, where intramural politics is followed more avidly than the paler version practiced on Capitol Hill. As was the case with almost every top-level personnel change at the paper in recent years, there was immediate speculation that Executive Editor Ben Bradlee had "got him." The New York Times reported differences in "management policies" between Bradlee and Geyelin. Other handicappers noted that Geyelin's star may have faded when his chief patron, Post Chairman Katharine Graham, 61, stepped down...
...During Geyelin's eleven-year stewardship, the Post's editorial columns became what many students of the genre consider to be the country's best, or very close to it: lively, tightly reasoned, well informed and elegantly crafted. Indeed, the Post has for years generally outthought and outinfluenced the archrival New York Times, though veteran Timesman Max Frankel has livened that paper's orotund and occasionally murky editorial page since he became its editor...
...graduate of Smith College and a Pulitzer winner herself (in 1978 for commentary), Seattle-born Greenfield was hired by Geyelin himself in 1968 after eleven years with Reporter magazine, and became his deputy in 1970. She plans to continue her fortnightly Newsweek column while presiding over the Post's eight editorial writers. No drastic shifts of policy are expected under Greenfield, who describes herself as a "moderate centrist liberal," similar to her predecessor in ideology. "She's rather conservative on fiscal issues but not on human rights," says Post Reporter Myra MacPherson, a good friend. Enthuses George Will...