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...trade. The new man in the key position of granting export licenses for all Communist countries is Lawrence Brady, 41 , Assistant Secretary for trade administration at the Commerce Department. Brady had been deputy director of the office of export administration from 1974 to 1980, when he resigned in a huff over his belief that the Carter Administration was being too liberal in granting export licenses. He points out, for example, that trucks produced in the Kama River plant, built with U.S. help, were used by the Soviets in the invasion of Afghanistan...
Oddest Couple. Tom Snyder and Rona Barrett who got along so famously as co-hosts of NBC's Tomorrow that Miss Rona finally walked out in a huff...
...energy committee guided much of President Carter's energy program into law, was upset by Attorney Ed Weber of Toledo. But liberal Warhorse Morris Udall, 58, recently stricken by Parkinson's disease, beat back a strong challenge from a conservative real estate millionaire, Richard Huff, 54, in Arizona...
...Texas, House Majority Leader Jim Wright is in the toughest fight of his career against Jim Bradshaw, a former city council member in Fort Worth who has been aided by a surge in voter registration in traditionally Republican precincts. Democratic Congressman Morris Udall appeared to be moving past Richard Huff, Republican real estate millionaire, until Udall revealed that he is suffering from Parkinson's disease, thus injecting another uncertainty into the Arizona race...
...comic writer. Her well-known early story, Why I Live at the P.O., is a hilarious portrait of sheer cussedness; the narrator, postmistress at "the next to smallest P.O. in the entire state of Mississippi," makes herself so obnoxious to her bizarre kinspeople that she stalks out in a huff and sets up housekeeping at her place of business. The town is then split into those who will patronize the post office and those who refuse to use the mail at all, rather than cross the family...