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George Bush seems to have found the position of Secretary of Energy the hardest to fill in the entire top rank of his Administration. Not until last week did he announce the last of his 14 Cabinet appointments, but then his choice drew much praise. His selection: retired Admiral James Watkins, 60, an expert on nuclear power, former Chief of Naval Operations and once a long-shot prospect to become father-in-law of Britain's Prince Charles (Watkins' daughter Laura Jo had a romance with the Prince before marrying an American actor). Watkins' last Government job was as head...
...selection of a funeral delegation touched a nerve in the Netherlands, which lost 30,000 people as a result of the Japanese occupation of the former Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. Veterans groups are demanding that the delegation leader rank no higher than ambassador. China, overrun and occupied by the Japanese for nearly a decade, put off naming a delegation, but officials there say top leaders will not go to Tokyo...
...they are involved in the fewest accidents overall of any age group. But those statistics do not weigh the fact that senior citizens tend to drive fewer miles than their younger counterparts. A 1988 study by the Transportation Research Board and the National Research Council discovered that elderly drivers rank second only to 16-to-24-year-olds in the number of accidents per mile driven. Similarly, the Insurance Information Institute reports that drivers 75 and over are more accident-prone than all but those under...
...real estate tycoon Donald J. (for John) Trump does not really loom colossus-high above the horizon of New York and New Jersey. He has created no great work of art or ideas, and even as a maker or possessor of money he does not rank among the top ten, or even 50. Yet at 42 he has seized a large fistful of that contemporary coin known as celebrity. There has been artfully hyped talk about his having political ambitions, worrying about nuclear proliferation, even someday running for President. No matter how farfetched that may be, something about his combination...
...point is not lost on the rank and file. Jane Conrad, 45, a $14-an-hour GM press operator, missed out on a supervisor's job because she had not finished high school. So the mother of six enrolled in GM's Flint Township Learning Lab this year. Subjects included a thorough review of fractions, reading comprehension and English literature. Conrad, who received a high school diploma this past summer, is concerned about the increasing demands of automation at the plant. Says she: "If you don't have the basic training, some of it can be hard to keep...