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Most of them would not have placed in a baby contest, but there they were, looking surprisingly like their grown-up selves. From Baby Adolf Hitler to Altar Boy Richard Daley, the passel of snapshots and more formal portraits had been assembled somewhat irreverently in a paperback album, As They Were, by Sylvia Topp and Tuli Kupferberg. Little Walter Cronkite sported short pants and big ears; Sammy Davis Jr. at three looked like a refugee from Our Gang; Marlene Dietrich was demurely Victorian, with a tiny heart-shaped locket and crossed ankles. As a baby, Baby Dr. Benjamin Spock wore...
...match in a week, the show biz season was off to a walloping start. Marlon Brando's hand was no sooner on the mend after an encounter with a persistent Manhattan photographer than some of the staff of Designer Pierre Cardin's Paris theater took on a passel of paparazzi. They wanted to catch Marlene Dietrich, a camera-shy 68, during her curtain calls. When Dietrich said no, French fists flew. Critics remembered Dietrich's last appearance 11 years before-with some of the same songs...
...holds out hope that anyone who has ever hefted a hamburger can learn to cook at home "in the manner of the great French chefs." There are, of course, no guarantees. Each installment gets more difficult: last week's featured such goodies as haddock mousse and a passel of paellas. Julia Child, co-author of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, says she thinks Grand Diplome looks "pretty good." The U.S. edition is published in Maple Plain, Minn., which is a long way from Paris no matter how you look...
...Whole Passel. Nixon observed that he was "finally bringing real business management at the very highest level into the Executive Branch of Government." But separating goals from their execution may be more difficult than it sounds. On paper, Ehrlichman and Shultz will be equals, each with his own staff, each with his own line of communication to the President. Haldeman will continue as overall coordinator of White House activities. How the setup works out will depend on the durability and chemistry of the individuals involved. It will be Ehrlichman's task to pull together and reconcile the aspirations...
...idea man. Nor is he an expert in any one domestic field. He is likely, therefore, to have competition from both Shultz and Finch, each of whom has had more experience in Government than Lawyer Ehrlichman from Seattle. Finch notes that he will be involved with a "whole passel of things," including "what our agenda of social needs ought to be once we get the Viet Nam War out of the way." In establishing the two new bodies, Nixon was obviously trying to make the vast federal bureaucracy more responsive to White House policy. In choosing new White House talent...