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Growing interest in the issue of nuclear waste disposal prompted congressional legislation in January calling for the establishment of two high-level nuclear waste disposal sites by 1990. Ralph Stein, deputy director of the geological repository program at the Department of Energy, said yesterday sites in 17 states are being considered...
...possible successor is Preston Martin, the California businessman whom Reagan named Federal Reserve vice chairman last year. Walter Wriston, chairman of Citicorp and an outside Reagan adviser, is also mentioned, as are three former chairmen of the Council of Economic Advisers: Herbert Stein and Paul McCracken, who served under Richard Nixon, and Alan Greenspan, who was Gerald Ford's top guru...
...Roosevelt, Isak Dinesen and Lyndon Johnson have sold briskly and drawn critical raves. The volumes have rescued the genre from charges that it was succumbing to the as-told-to stories of celebrities like Phil Donahue, such drugboilers as Albert Goldman's Elvis and George Plimpton and Jean Stein's Edie, essentially a snip-and-paste collage of interviews. Moreover, these new lives are not exclusively devoted to the scholarly examination of papers and letters. "Not long ago, most biographies were compiled by diligent researchers," says Michael Di Capua, editor in chief of Farrar, Straus & Giroux. But diligent...
...from nearly all his literary contemporaries in perhaps the most basic way: he is alive. At 87, the old warrior-poet still sits atop his Olympus on Majorca, the nobly weathered head shielded from the sun by a broad black hat. He moved to the Spanish island on Gertrude Stein's recommendation ("It's paradise if you can stand it") and has spent most of the past 50 years in the cliff village of Deya being crusty, godlike and protean. Graves' bibliography lists 59 collections of poetry, 20 works of prose fiction, 43 books of essays, autobiography and criticism, four...
...surprise, he more or less did; though another company now performs in Yale's name, Brustein's rechristened American Repertory Theater is in its fourth season at Harvard. This spring the university will consider whether to commit its patronage past 1984 and whether to endorse Bru stein's plan for conservatory training in drama. Brustein says he cannot continue without increased funds from Harvard...