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...Draper, who successfully brought liquor to Colbert and then, feeling muscular, ran for county commission chairman. Soundly defeated, he said, "I committed political suicide in heading up that drive." Another is the Chamber of Commerce in still dry Florence, a town that has forever looked down a patrician nose at Colbert County. The view has always been that field hands and factory workers live over there in Colbert, while management lives back across the river here in Lauderdale. Now, however, the dry Chamber is talking with the wet Chamber over yonder about a merger. The view behind this turn seems...
...artist in question is Mags (short for Margaret) Church. She lives in Manhattan and is about to have a one-woman show at a 57th Street gallery. With pride and belated affection, she visits her patrician parents on Boston's Beacon Hill. The house, which has been sold, greets Mags like a bare, ruined choir of lamentation. The great vaulting windows are naked, the marble fireplace mantelpiece is shrouded, and the living room floor is scattered with empty packing cartons. In the direst exodus of their lives, Fanny (Marian Seldes) and Gardner Church (Donald Moffat) are retreating, year-round...
...naturally expects. From the beginning he has led a productive, patrician life of unimpeded success. After graduating from Harvard, Nitze amassed a fortune during the Depression as an investment banker. In government since 1940, he oversaw the creation of the Marshall Plan and the NATO Alliance; in the early '60s he helped manage U.S. responses to crises over Berlin and Cuban missiles. Some who know him suggest that Nitze is now driven to achieve an INF treaty as a sort of final professional capstone. Nitze scoffs: "I just don't give that kind of thing any thought...
DIED. Tom McCall, 69, environment-minded Governor of Oregon from 1967 to 1975; of cancer; in Portland. A progressive Republican whose grandfather was a two-term Governor of Massachusetts, McCall pushed through tough laws regulating land use and pollution. Both patrician and folksy, the former journalist could be blunt: in 1971, he shooed prospective residents away from the state with the exhortation: "Visit-but for heaven's sake, don't stay...
...deals were engineered by Volvo's patrician chief executive, Pehr Gyllenhammar, 47. He belongs to Henry Kissinger's blue-chip international consulting group and wears a steel-banded watch on each wrist, one set for Goteborg time, the other for New York. Says he: "The diversification is not an escape from automobiles, but we believe that the industry is so strangled at the moment that it leaves no room for us to maneuver...