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Around the Nixon White House loyalty comes first, and in recent months Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird has been getting low marks for his performance in supporting the President's Viet Nam policy- not because he is against it in substance but because he would like withdrawal to proceed even faster. From the Administration's viewpoint, he has been too far out in front of his boss on a withdrawal timetable. For example, Laird predicted a lowering of the troop level to 50,000 by the end of 1972 weeks in advance of Nixon's televised speech...
...LOCAL production of Marigolds, on the basis of its final preview Monday night, more than lives up to the play and is usually the equal of the original off-Broadway version I saw a year ago. The New York director, Melvin Bernhardt, has repeated his staging chores here, and he has done nicely at adapting his work to the special demands of this new cast...
...affair, the President discussed congressional distress at the guilty verdict by telephone with his party's leader in the House, Representative Gerald Ford of Michigan-although the White House insists it was not the President who brought up the subject. Another was that he bypassed Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird when he ordered Calley removed from the stockade. Laird, who now hints that he opposed Nixon's intervention, heard about it only after the fact...
...there is still a manpower shortage. The Housing and Urban Affairs Department is joining with the Labor Department to retrain up to 2,000 unemployed engineers this summer for work on urban problems. Still, scientific leaders think this is not enough. The president of the American Chemical Society, Dr. Melvin Calvin, for example, wants direct federal salary support ($10,000 a year) to help the jobless as they start new careers...
...tiny new law school last fall and did such a good job that in November he was named associate dean. Two months ago, Ashman put the 18-month-old school on the edge of the academic map by staging a legal-education conference with speakers like F. Lee Bailey, Melvin Belli and Admiral Joseph McDevitt, the Navy's Judge Advocate General. For Belli, who had lectured before at the school, the conference was climaxed by his appointment as dean emeritus (though he had never been dean...