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Satchel for a Solo. By Frank's account, Hugh Downs, host of the Today show, was indirectly the catalyst for the news shakeup. Downs wanted a break to relax, write and lecture. "We would have kept going under the old format for another year," says Frank, but Downs was adamant about quitting. "I coaxed Frank McGee," Frank admits. McGee takes over Today in October. Brinkley, meanwhile, will assume the job of "commentator" for NBC News. Next month David Brinkley's Journal will be seen as a separate segment of most of the nightly newscasts, NBC's riposte...
Gierek last week weathered a different but no less important test with high marks. With unrest continuing among the workers whose December rioting led to the leadership shakeup, Gierek took the unusual and daring step of meeting personally with the most militant protesters in Szczecin and Gdansk...
...influence with a Government agency may feel threatened by a major new line-up of Cabinet departments. Political advocates of specific programs also worry. Democrats who support the antipoverty efforts of the Office of Economic Opportunity, for example, fear that OEO could be stifled in an administrative shakeup, and may oppose the plan. The conflicting pressures could easily kill this idea. It would also require extensive revision of congressional committees, since many now parallel the executive departments. Convincing powerful committee chairmen to abolish their own jobs will be difficult...
...meeting attended by many of the most powerful men in Italian business and state agencies, Merzagora stalked out and resigned. The state, he complained, was seeking domination of the firm. The news sent ripples of concern through Western Europe's business community. Amid rumors of a drastic organizational shakeup, the company's stock scraped a new low. Investors remembered that Giorgio Valerio, a bitter foe of state encroachment, was ousted as president last April by his rivals in the government...
...Robert B. Watson's departure as dean of Students will precipitate a major Administration shakeup this Fall, informed sources in the Administration said last month...