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...pages by expanding the staff and adding regular reports on careers, management, technology and other subjects. The once sternly liberal and generally predictable editorial page has brightened since its editor?and Sulzberger's cousin?John Oakes, 64, was made a senior editor last January. The new oracle-in-chief, Max Frankel, 47, a former Washington bureau chief, has moved editorial policy a little closer to Sulzberger's own middle-of-the-road pragmatism and initiated a number of features, including "Topics," a collection of short and sometimes snappy commentaries. Frankel (who reports directly to Publisher Sulzberger) has also expanded...
...indications that among the Swiss public banking is no longer quite the hallowed institution it once was. Manufacturers feel that the flow of funds into Switzerland has overvalued the Swiss franc and thus put Swiss textiles, watches and machinery at a disadvantage in export markets. Says Swiss Accountant Max Fluri: "Our banking sector has grown taller than the Swiss Confederation. For some time, it has been bringing the country more harm than good...
There's a scene in Between the Lines, a film about a small, alternative Boston newspaper, in which Max the manic rock critic rambles insanely to a group of rapt college students on the crucial question facing modern civilization...
Well, rock fans, you needn't get in a dither about it, but Max is right-non-mobile back-beat lovers will find this a summer of pretty slim musical pickings. The best rock around this week is out in the southern hinterlands. Ray Davies and the Kinks will be playing out at the Cape Cod Coliseum on July 2. Tickets are $7.50 in advance, $8.50 the day of the show and are available at the Out of Town Newsstand in the Square. Later in the week, Fleetwood Mac will play their various chartbusters at the Providence, R.I., Civic Center...
...their criticisms. Some are afraid that the new ultranationalist Premier-designate Menachem Begin-who will visit Washington next month-may make a settlement all the harder to achieve. Despite their growing unease with Carter, many Jews are still willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Says Max Palevsky, a top Los Angeles Democratic Party fund raiser: "There haven't been enough attempts at moderation, and any prodding in that direction by Carter, anything that gets movement, is all to the good." But the critics are more numerous and more impassioned. Recalling that an estimated...