Word: valenti
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moscow Film Festival last week, Jack Valenti, go-go president of the Motion Picture Association of America, seemed to be working as hard for old boss L.B.J. as for the M.P.A.A...
Finding the war in Viet Nam a "troubling sore point" among the Soviets, Valenti gave his hosts the highest assurance that President Johnson "wanted peace and an honorable settlement." After all, explains Jack, during his White House days he read "every raw inch of intelligence that crossed the President's desk." Otherwise, Valenti found "the spirit of Glassboro very much alive and breathing" during his mission to Moscow, proudly announced that the dozen U.S. entries pulled more than half the festival attendance...
...Navy hospital, he took education tests and scored so high that he skipped high school to enter the University of Houston. From there he went to Harvard Business School. Returning to Houston, he became city treasurer and chief administrative officer in four years. Then he joined College Pal Jack Valenti, who later became L.B.J.'s aide, to form the Jamaica Corp., now a multimillion-dollar land-developing company. He also became president of Homestead State Bank. Thus, with experience and contacts, he was a natural in 1966 for L.B.J. to name to the three-man board of the Federal...
Disappearing Circle. Moyers is the last of Johnson's original White House crew remaining on the scene. Gone from the Administration are Johnson's own recruits (Walter Jenkins, Jack Valenti, Reedy, Horace Busby, Eric Goldman), as well as men who served both Kennedy and Johnson (McGeorge Bundy, Ralph Dungan, Kenny O'Donnell, Arthur Schlesinger, Richard Goodwin, Dave Powers, Pierre Salinger, Jerome Wiesner, Ted Sorensen). Jake Jacobsen, another of Johnson's inner-circle aides, will also depart early next year. Moyers' replacement will be George Christian, 39, a former Texas sportswriter (the Temple Telegram and International...
...Poor girl," clucked Movie Czar Jack Valenti after a champagne-party chat at the girl's $1,500,000 Appia Antica villa outside Rome. "She told me that for five years they've been having hardly anything to do with each other. It's a shame." Actress Gina Lollobrigida, 38, did her best to cover up her unhappiness by giving a blast for 80 movie types including Claudia Cardinale, in honor of Valenti, who is touring Europe for the first time as the new president of the Motion Picture Association of America. Gina and her husband...