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Rivals Beer and Wald...
...heads. But last week's replacement of Reuven Frank as president of NBC News transpired with no audible percussions. Frank, 52, had let it be known for some time that he was tired of administrative work. Five years ago he had brought in ex-Newspaper Editor Richard C. Wald as a News vice president. Last June, when Frank made Wald his second in command, it seemed clear that Wald was being groomed to succeed his patron. With that change accomplished, Frank now plans to return to producing news documentaries...
...Wald, 41, brings considerable experience to the post (at 35 he was managing editor of the New York Herald Tribune). His handling of NBC's $100 million annual news budget will get close scrutiny, both from Madison Avenue and competitors. "We'll make changes," Wald said, "but not immediately." As if to stress the amicable nature of the change in command, he summoned a quip for his first day on the job: "I plan to continue in the grand tradition of American journalism, and I'll figure out tomorrow what that...
Revelle expects to expand programs of international scientific exchange already begun by the society, a task for which Harvard colleagues George Wald. Higgins Professor of Biology, and Everett 1 Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science, see him as especial well qualified...
...scientists, including Mendelsohn, went to the White House and attempted to speak with a member of the national security office in order to find out what the rationale for the bombing was. Unable to see any staff members, the scientists turned in a petition condemning the bombing written by Wald and signed by several hundred AAAS members to the White House mail room...