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Similar Duties. The Rockefeller men being promoted have varied backgrounds. Cannon is a veteran newsman, moving from the Baltimore Sun to become a TIME contributing editor, then Newsweek's national affairs editor, chief of correspondents and a vice president. A native of Alabama, he joined Rockefeller's New York staff in 1969. For Rocky, he held a post with duties similar to his Domestic Council position: chairman of the Commission on Critical Choices for Americans...
...Ullman has predicted that Congress will not accept Ford's regressive fuel tax plan as is. Nor have the people shown any inclination to accept the image of Ford as a kindly Santa Claus, dispensing gifts to his little children. In a study conducted by the Gallup organization for Newsweek, only four per cent of the pollees rated Ford's new economic program as excellent, and only ten per cent thought it good. A majority of respondents rated Ford's proposals as fair or poor...
...height of public acrimony in 1967, Lippmann gave up his Washington home and moved back to New York. Journalist Marquis Childs recalls Lippmann's dejection at the time: "He was saying 'Never again, never again.' " But he continued to speak out as a contributor to Newsweek and in interviews...
Divorced. Alan Jay Lerner, 56, Broadway lyricist-laureate (My Fair Lady, Camelot); By Karen Gundersen Lerner, 39, former Newsweek reporter who met him during a 1965 interview; after eight years of marriage, two years of separation, no children; in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Gundersen was Lerner's fifth wife...
...EVEN MORE excruciating crises are plaguing the world, crises to which we can be but impervious. Looking at newspaper photographs of emaciated women combing the ground for blades of wheat to give their dying children is little different from reading unemployment statistics in Newsweek. We look, shudder, and lament, and then run to make the last feature at the Brattle. Perhaps we could grasp 'the magnitude of the situation if some international group flew in a group of Bengali or Nigerian villagers to Harvard Square, where they would compete with chanting Hare Krishna people for the attention of the people...