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...Carter nominated him to be chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, G. William Miller has said that one of his top priorities will be strengthening the battered dollar. But to get the chance to deliver on his words, he had to survive confirmation hearings that turned into an unexpected ordeal-in which his views on the dollar, interest rates, money supply and other matters that a Fed chairman must handle hardly figured at all. Rather, the issue was Miller's personal integrity as chairman of Textron Inc., the giant conglomerate...
...hours earlier, however, the President had just joined in a party honoring early campaign supporters in the Blue Room of the White House. Suddenly he got a message. Striding down the corridor to take his place before cameras in the West Wing, he briskly announced that the long ordeal was probably over. A "voluntary settlement" had been reached between the 165,000 striking United Mine Workers and the 130-member Bituminous Coal Operators Association. Said the President to the workers who must now ratify the pact: "This agreement serves the national interest as well as your...
...branded a rightist. Bowing to the winds of change, the Columbia-educated author of the renowned two-volume A History of Chinese Philosophy repudiated his life's work. During the Cultural Revolution, Feng was denounced as a counterrevolutionary; once again he confessed abjectly to his sins. After that ordeal he was restored to his post as professor of philosophy at Peking University. Last month Feng fell victim to the campaign against the Gang of Four. His crime: writing a poem in 1974 that favorably compared Chiang Ch'ing with the dictatorial 7th century Empress Wu. The aged philosopher...
Long-married couples are experts at small talk, but it has resonances that outsiders cannot guess at. Using the common language of memory and observation, Zeman, 32, crowds a barren stage with children growing up, leaving, marrying and having children of their own, of a husband's ordeal by alcoholism and his conquest of it, of Emily's witnessing her small son being crushed by a truck. The true protagonists are pain, humor, fury, the terrors of aloneness, a remembrance of good sex past, and an abiding perception of love amid its ruins...
...dark den" handcuffed to a radiator and guarded by four men whose faces were covered by ski masks. But Dutch Multimillionaire Maurits ("Maupie") Caransa, 61, who was kidnaped on Oct. 28 outside his club in Amsterdam, remained a shrewd businessman throughout the ordeal. And, as it turned out last week, business-rather than terrorism, as had originally been feared-was the name of the game. By Caransa's account, the kidnapers first demanded a ransom of $16 million. After two days of haggling, Caransa, whose real estate, hotel and other holdings are worth $40 million, wheedled his captors down...