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First Carter named as Defense Secretary Harold Brown, president of the California Institute of Technology, who headed weapons research at the Pentagon in the McNamara years. In his final session, after a quick trip to Chicago for the funeral of Mayor Richard Daley, Carter named three more old hands. To run Health, Education and Welfare, Carter recruited Joseph Califano, Lyndon Johnson's domestic policy chief. To head the energy agency that he hopes to expand into a Cabinet department, Carter chose his house Republican, James Schlesinger, whose resume is getting to be as lengthy as Elliot Richardson...
...Harold Brown has always been in a hurry. He graduated at age 15 from New York's Bronx High School of Science, finished Columbia at the head of his class by age 17, had his doctorate in physics from Columbia by 22. Two years later he was a protégé of Edward Teller, a leader in developing the hydrogen bomb. As one of Robert McNamara's "Whiz Kids" and research director of the Defense Department by the time he was 33, he was nicknamed Childe Harold. Now a mature 49, the brilliant scientist-manager was near...
...dove, Brown is a pragmatist suspicious of prevailing views. Says an old friend, Rand Corp. Economist Charles Wolf: "If exposed to hard-line views, he is likely to take softer ones, and if exposed to soft-line views he is likely to take harder ones." Says Teller: "Harold is a realistic, nondoctrinaire person...
...have never had a single person either with me or on the telephone ask me not to appoint Dr. Harold Brown for Secretary of Defense," Jimmy Carter insisted last week. In the narrowest sense that was apparently true. But the statement ignored the fact that some of Washington's sharpest political and bureaucratic infighters were flashing their knives to influence the President-elect's most difficult remaining personnel decision: whether to appoint the Caltech president to the Pentagon post or give the job back to James Schlesinger, who had been abruptly dumped by President Gerald Ford for resisting...
...Hugh Fraser, 58. British Member of Parliament; and Lady Antonia Fraser, 43, bestselling author (Mary Queen of Scots Cromwell: The Lord Protector); after 20 years of marriage, six children; in London. Eraser's suit for divorce was not contested by Lady Antonia, who has been living with Playwright Harold Pinter for more than a year. Pinter's wife. Actress Vivien Merchant, named her Ladyship corespondent in a suit in 1975, but has since decided not to press for a divorce...