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...Detente. Although he has been winning some ground on Capitol Hill, Rockefeller's courting of conservatives has as yet made little impact on G.O.P. stalwarts throughout the country. "I don't see how he can change the habits of 30 years," says Robert J. Huber, an industrialist and former state senator from Michigan. Indeed, Rockefeller recently alienated West Coast conservatives by naming to his staff John Veneman, a liberal Californian who once served as Under Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Notes a Reagan aide: "The symbolism of the Veneman appointment goes against...
...claims that Jewish lobbyists have just about given up on the Secretary and work through Congress instead. Friction arose, for example, over Nixon's opposition to helping Soviet Jews through the Jackson Amendment, but Jewish leaders had no difficulty discussing it with him. One of Nixon's Jewish backers, Industrialist Max Fisher of Detroit, arranged such a talk. Fisher also set up a meeting with Nixon in which Jewish leaders urged intervention with the Soviet Union to lift the death sentences given two Leningrad Jews who had tried to hijack a plane and flee the Soviet Union. Nixon and Kissinger...
...flew it only once, for about 60 seconds back in 1947. After that, the giant Spruce Goose flying boat, designed by Industrialist Howard Hughes, never again took to the air. The eight-engine wooden plane, built by the Hughes Tool Co. and a Government defense agency, was obsolescent even before its one brief hop. Last week the General Services Administration announced that the bird, which has been stored in Long Beach, Calif., will be carved up and its pieces displayed at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and other institutions...
...surgeon, Trapper John, Doc Rogers carries on with a different operation. As head of W.M. Rogers, Inc.-Managed Investments, he takes care of the financial affairs of half a dozen clients (among them Actors Peter Falk and James Caan) and deals with such financiers as Lyons and Los Angeles Industrialist Lawrence Weinberg. Insiders estimate that Rogers' company is worth several million dollars. His holdings-with Falk and others-include apartment buildings, office blocks and a 500-acre California vineyard-the largest planting of merlot grapes in the world...
...picture frames lying flat on the parquet floor. In fact, it was another Italian spe cialita della casa-art theft. In the hours before dawn, thieves had broken in through a window and spirited off about $2.3 million worth of paintings left to the museum in 1956 by Sicilian Industrialist Carlo Grassi. The haul included a Cezanne, a Bonnard, a Renoir, a Vuillard, a Van Gogh, a Gauguin, a Millet and a brace of Corots. The thieves, said Director Mercedes Garberi, "displayed a very refined taste." Giovanni Spadolini, Italy's Minister of the Cultural Patrimony, was already in shock...