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...prized job of Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. The London appointment has often gone to a wealthy campaign supporter-to Joseph Kennedy under F.D.R., to John Hay Whitney under Eisenhower-and Annenberg fills that bill precisely. His Triangle Publications has become a $200 million-a-year empire; Annenberg is known in Philadelphia as a tough man to cross. He is an old, trusted friend of Nixon, and the President-elect stayed at his Palm Springs home shortly after the election...
...chose the Navy job because he does not have to "commit himself for life," indicating that he is likely to run for office again in Rhode Island. His experience at Defense will not hurt. Chafee's tiny state has three major Navy installations, which annually pour some $174 million in payrolls into its economy...
...Alaskans that they have never seemed to care very much whether some of the state's 586,400 sq. mi. are despoiled in the rush to unlock its treasure chest of oil, metals, timber and fish. In that respect, Hickel, who had acquired more than $14 million in housing, hotels and natural-gas holdings before his election in 1966, is not notably different in outlook from most of his fellow Alaskans...
Looking Askance. As Secretary of the Interior, however, Hickel would be the custodian of 750 million acres of federal lands, forests and national parks-and rank as the nation's chief defender against the land-grabbing giveaways and pollution that have spoiled much of the environment in the past. Yet after his nomination in December, Hickel did not hesitate to say that he found little merit in "conservation for conservation's sake," a remark that created an even bigger furor among lovers of nature than Ronald Reagan caused when he said that seeing one redwood...
Then, too, Hickel's critics look askance at the Governor's fight against a ruling by outgoing Interior Secretary Stewart Udall blocking title to 262 million acres of federal rangeland that Alaska had earmarked as its own as part of a 1958 statehood land grant. Udall has insisted on holding the ranges in escrow until there is a settlement of claims by Alaska's 55,000 Indians, Aleuts and Eskimos, who argue that the land was originally theirs. Oil companies covet leases to 58 million of the disputed acres that are part of the Arctic North Slope...