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...Tikhonov, Brezhnev has acquired the nearest thing to a tried and tested yes man. Tall, square-faced and self-effacing, the veteran technocrat has little foreign and defense policy experience; he has been known as a Brezhnev protegé ever since the two studied metallurgical engineering at neighboring technical institutes in the Ukraine in the 1930s. He became deputy chairman of GOSPLAN, the state planning committee, in 1963, a Deputy Premier in 1965 and a full member of the Politburo last November. By then, as First Deputy Premier, he had already become Kosygin's virtually full-time standin...
Dissident Machine Democrat Jane Byrne, 44, a Daley protegé and for ten years commissioner of consumer sales, had become disenchanted with Michael Bilandic, 56, who, was elected two years ago to succeed the Boss. In 1977, she charged that the new mayor had "greased" the way for an unwarranted taxicab rate increase. For that insubordination, Bilandic fired her. Veterans at city hall guffawed when the angry woman announced that she would challenge Bilandic...
Dogberry, the buffoon-cop in Much Ado About Nothing, seems unable to know his duty, let alone do it. Yet through his good offices, villains and sweethearts alike get theirs. So it is with A.J. Antoon, 27, the Joseph Papp prodigy-protegé who staged That Championship Season. Now Antoon has directed the New York Shakespeare Festival celebration of Much Ado as if unaware of the usual approach to Shakespearean farce, the mannered conceits that often seem aimed at pleasing only the performers and antiquarians. Ignorant of his "duty," Antoon knows only that the play is a comedy and that...
...present chief of ENI, which controls more than 35% of Italy's petroleum industry, is Raffaele Girotti, 53, a Cefis protegé. Trained as an engineer, Girotti has worked for ENI since 1949. He has earned the nickname "The Hammer" because of his ruthless management skills. In an effort to reorganize one sprawling firm, he interviewed every man in its management ranks, sometimes as many as 30 a day, and then decided which ones to keep and which to discard...
...real member of Speaker McCormack's family is Nephew Edward McCormack. The Speaker regards Edward almost as his own son and surely as a protegé. In 1966, Voloshen brokered political and financial labor union support for Edward McCormack's unsuccessful campaign for Governor of Massachusetts...