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...Central Committee, who was believed to be on a meteoric rise. Katushev apparently lost favor for having organized last June's summit meeting of Europe's Communist parties, at which several party bosses flaunted their independence from Moscow. His replacement is Konstantin Rusakov, 68, a Brezhnev protégé with long experience in Eastern Europe who may have better luck in dealing with Moscow's wandering comrades in the Communist world...
...reincarnated as New York, he gave free rein to such emerging stars as Jimmy Breslin, Dick Schaap, George ("Adam Smith") Goodman. Many of the best and the brightest have left in rage and frustration-or on the wave of New York-borne success. Felker, says Ms. editor and Felker protégée Gloria Steinem, is "the lightning rod of animosity-and of creativity...
Harold Brown has always been in a hurry. He graduated at age 15 from New York's Bronx High School of Science, finished Columbia at the head of his class by age 17, had his doctorate in physics from Columbia by 22. Two years later he was a protégé of Edward Teller, a leader in developing the hydrogen bomb. As one of Robert McNamara's "Whiz Kids" and research director of the Defense Department by the time he was 33, he was nicknamed Childe Harold. Now a mature 49, the brilliant scientist-manager was near...
...more volatile Hamilton Jordan. One of Jordan's former deputies, Barbara Blum, will become Watson's deputy; Landon Butler, another Jordan aide, was also given a top spot under Watson. One choice in transition planning seemed to have a barb in it: Anthony Lake, a former Kissinger protégé at the National Security Council who is now suing the Secretary for tapping his telephone, is handling Carter's relations with the State Department...
Director-Writer Alan Rudolph, 32, is a protégé of Robert Altman. Rudolph worked on Nashville and wrote the screenplay of Buffalo Bill and the Indians; Altman is the producer of Welcome to L.A. There are pronounced traces of Altman's style here-mainly in the kaleidoscopic plot construction that is reminiscent of Nashville. Rudolph has his own voice, however, and he has found it early. He falters at times, lets his ambition slide into pretension, pampers a line of dialogue until it just arches its back and slinks away. Allowances should be made for first features...