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...hand to get first copies of Komer's report was Donald MacDonald, 44, who replaces Charles Mann as AID chief in Viet Nam. MacDonald has headed AID programs in Pakistan and Nigeria, and is known as an expert troubleshooter. The report's main points: > Galloping inflation, which could yet undo all the benefits of the U.S. buildup by swamping Viet Nam's economy with more money than it can absorb, has been curbed by a drastic 50% devaluation of the piaster, as well as by new economic restraints worked out jointly by U.S. and Vietnamese officials. - Saigon...
...DWIGHT MACDONALD...
...needed. Last week the jointly owned Toledo Blade and Toledo Times, which the Ohio Bar Association had commended for quiet coverage of the Sheppard trial, broke ranks and announced the adoption of a code of ethics. "If we're going to have policies," said Blade Editor James C. MacDonald, "we'll have our own policies and not someone else's. We'll decide for ourselves...
...maturity have come to that jack-of-all-musical-trades, Andre Previn. He is 37 years old, and it is hard to believe that he was about half that age when MGM in 1948 assigned him to compose, score and direct the music for a $3,000,000 Jeanette MacDonald movie. Since then, he has plucked four Oscars for scoring Gigi, Porgy and Bess, Irma La Douce and My Fair Lady. Now Previn is changing, and so is his career. "The boy-wonder thing is over," he mused last week. "I have decided to concentrate on conducting to the exclusion...
...JEANETTE MACDONALD AND NELSON EDDY (RCA Victor). "Together again," as the previews of coming attractions used to say. Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, Indian Love Call, Rose-Marie-they're all here, the original recordings, most of them never before put on LP and one, Song of Love from Blossom Time, never released at all until now. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp to the nearest record store...