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...chairman last December after Michael Blumenthal was selected to be Jimmy Carter's Treasury Secretary, is a tested and talented manager and financial man-as he tells anyone who asks. Practically the only thing he is touchy about is his age: businessmen, Wall Streeters and journalists often remark how unusual it is for a 39-year-old to run a company so huge. "Look," says Agee, "there aren't a lot of people who have had-at whatever age -the top management responsibility and deep involvement that I have...
...DANCER-FRIEND of mine overheard choreographer Beth Soll remark, as she tacked up posters announcing her January concert "Clear-field," that it was about time she considered doing a more accessible piece. Funny that another Boston dance company recently has made just that decision. New England Dinosaur, which last spring gave a concert of five wonderfully inaccessible dances last month presented "The Tree of Life," the sort of piece suited for lecture demonstrations in high school gyms on "modern dance...
...question. Said the Senator: "I thought you were the wrong man for the wrong position." Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh told Sorensen that some people were out to get him "because they don't want a clean broom at the CIA." Senator George McGovern emerged from the audience to remark that the episode showed that the "ghost of Joe McCarthy still stalks the land." Committee Chairman Dan Inouye, who opposed the nomination, said that he hoped Sorensen would leave with no "bitterness...
...pathetic that there are still generals who are unable or unwilling to recognize and accept the function of the lawyer in the Army, as evidenced by General Ulmer's remark, "The goddam lawyers are ruining the Army...
...Everybody has talked about conservation but, as Mark Twain said about the weather, nobody has done very much about it." This wry remark was made last week by James Schlesinger in an interview with TIME, just before he was put in charge of the Carter Administration's energy policies. Schlesinger, the intellectual James-of-all-trades for the Nixon and Ford administrations, repeated the line at Carter's press conference and, untypically, botched it slightly.* But he still made his point about the energy crisis: "We are going to try to do something about...