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...Since Manuel F. Cohen left the post in 1969, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has had no fewer than five chairmen, a measure of the job's toughness during a time of reform in the securities industry. Last week President Carter designated still another boss as the nation's securities watchdog: Harold M. Williams, 49, the brilliant dean of U.C.L.A.'S Graduate School of Management and former chairman of Norton Simon Inc., the consumer-products conglomerate. After his expected confirmation by the Senate, Williams will replace Roderick M. Hills, chairman since 1975, who had told Carter...
...named Rose Elizabeth Bird, 40, California's Agriculture and Services Secretary, to be not only the first woman on the seven-member court but also the chief justice. At the same time, Brown appointed the court's first black: Alameda County Superior Court Judge Wiley W. Manuel...
...would be hard to find a less "Beautiful Thing" than the opening track of this album. Clapton's choice of lyrics has always tended towards the fourth-shot-of-Jim-Beam simplistic, and though Richard Manuel and Rick Danko dreamed up this particular opaque gem, Clapton's lazy guitar and uninspired vocals add no lustre. This prolonged and painful recollection of a past love is chicory-bitter moaning. It won't generate much energy except in your fancy new turntable. You know, the kind you can program to skip tracks...
Both Santiago and Moscow quickly tried to make capital out of the exchange. At a Washington press conference, Chilean Ambassador Manuel Trucco declared that 383 Chilean political prisoners had also been freed recently, neglecting to mention that 650 others are still behind bars. In Moscow the official press agency, Tass, jubilantly reported that the Soviet government had provided Corvalán with the "opportunity of coming to the U.S.S.R.," without mentioning Bukovsky. At week's end one respected Latin American newspaper. Buenos Aires' La Opinion, commented: "The exchange demonstrates that Santiago and Moscow have very similar concepts about...
Near dawn Monday, the doctors decided to call in outside help. One of them summoned Dr. [Victor Manuel] Montemayor [house doctor for a number of Acapulco resort hotels]. He arrived at the Hughes penthouse at 6 a.m. He spent two hours examining the emaciated billionaire and later said he was "aghast" at his condition. He was shown the blood analysis disclosing the failure of Hughes' kidneys, and his own examination showed that Hughes was drastically dehydrated, with a pulse so weak that the Mexican doctor could get no reading in several attempts to take his blood pressure...