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Throughout the week, two essentially incompatible social systems got a close look at each other. The Russians were impressed by the smoothly functioning, youthful White House staff. The openness of the operation, the freewheeling ways of the press astonished Soviets accustomed to older, more staid bureaucrats. The Americans, on the other hand, got a glimpse of decision making in the Kremlin: the constant need to consult, the subtle jockeying among lesser leaders to get closer to the center of power, Brezhnev...
Unmarked Vans. No show in the staid B.M.'s history ever generated such fuss or demanded such elaborate preparation. First, a firm of English packers spent five weeks in Cairo crating the treasures-each wrapped in cellophane, encased in plastic quilts, set on a foam cushion tray and finally shut in a carpeted crate. The museum stepped up its security precautions. When this groundwork (estimated cost: $900,000) had been done, the 41 crates were flown at night from Cairo in two BOAC freighters and one R.A.F. jet, then secretly whisked to the museum. Fearing hijackers, the English authorities...
...Netherlands' member of the European Commission. There he refined "the Mansholt Plan" to phase out Europe's tiny farms and replace them with larger, more efficient units; a modified version of his proposal was passed the day after he took over as president. Within the staid EEC bureaucracy, he also developed a well-founded reputation for bumptious indiscretion. As a zealous supranationalist who advocated closer European union, he fought a number of ideological battles with France's Gaullist representatives in the early '60s. For years it had been assumed that the hostility of the French...
Polonia Exposed. Last week two of the three finalists from the Palace of Culture made their debut in a crowded bar in Warsaw's Hotel Bristol. As the music progressed from a staid rendition of Mendelssohn's Wedding March to the sexy West European hit Je T'Aime . . . Moi Non Plus, a big-busted performer called Satana writhed her way out of a wedding dress, finally getting down to only...
...year ago, when he was promoted from Washington bureau chief to become the youngest managing editor in the Chicago Tribune's 125-year history, Russell Freeburg, then 47, seemed the certain heir to Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick, 57. His mission was to help brighten up the staid Trib and check its long circulation slide, from 868,000 to 745,000 in the past decade. Last week Freeburg resigned abruptly from one of the top jobs in journalism, explaining that he wanted "to do things faster than the corporate management wanted to move." His successor is Maxwell McCrohon, 43, an amiable...