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...White Boys, a suitably complex Oedipus in a BBC production of Jean Cocteau's The Infernal Machine, and a robust and lyric Romeo in a Caedmon recording of Romeo and Juliet (with Claire Bloom), scheduled for U.S. release soon. But throughout Britain he is best known as Arthur Seaton, hero of the film version of Novelist Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, an elaborately praised production that will give the U.S. its first full look at Albert Finney, when it opens here in a few weeks (he had a small part in The Entertainer...
Some retiring Eisenhower aides slipped quietly into nests back home: Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson planned to resume his Mormon duties in Utah as member of the church's governing Council of Twelve, and Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton headed for Hastings, Neb. to pick up his chain of eight dailies in four states (Nebraska, Kansas, South Dakota, Wyoming), where he left them over seven years ago. Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell decided to stay in politics for a while at least, prepared to run for Governor of New Jersey...
Aboard the train were Vice President Richard Nixon, his wife, his staff, 100 newsmen and a battery of top-level advisers, including three Eisenhower Cabinet members-Attorney General William Rogers, Interior Secretary Fred Seaton, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Arthur Flemming...
Into the battleship-grey conference room of the drab Bond Hotel in Hartford, Conn, last week walked Presidential Candidate Richard Nixon, Running Mate Henry Cabot Lodge, and such top campaign lieutenants as Labor Secretary James Mitchell, Attorney General William Rogers and Interior Secretary Fred Seaton. The men took their places around a long table, posed for press photographers. Then aides shooed the newsmen out, the doors closed, the smiles faded, and the Republican campaign team got down to the serious business before it: settling on strategy, tactics and schedules for the last, decisive weeks of the campaign...
...with practical political savvy, he found himself in occasional disagreement with Administration policy, and his situation was touchy. Sometimes he openly battled for his viewpoint in the councils of the Administration. During the 1957-58 recession, for example, he recruited Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell and Interior Secretary Fred Seaton in his losing struggle to persuade Ike that, with the 1958 congressional elections looming, the Administration should take more dras tic antirecession measures, even at the cost of further unbalancing the budget. On some issues, notably his disagreement with Agriculture Secretary Benson's farm policies and his concern over...