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...rude blow to Cecil Harmsworth King, 60, head of the Daily Mirror group, a gigantic newspaper-magazine combine (total circulation: more than 16 million) that includes two of Britain's leading popular papers: the sex-salted Daily Mirror and the Sunday Pictorial, one of three newspapers that the watchdog Press Council last year called "a disgrace to British journalism." The other two: the People and News of the World...
...books (the latest: last year's The Economics of Defense in the Nuclear Age). At Rand, Hitch has been in charge of thinking out the economic implications of cold war military problems and weapons systems-an assignment so close to his new job as Defense's financial watchdog that he says, "It won't be a change of work but a change of responsibility...
...Manner. But Faisal's austerity did not sit well with many Saudis. Budget cuts brought to a near standstill King Saud's busy building of palaces and impressive government offices in Riyadh, and grumbling artisans and tradesmen quit town by the thousands. And Feisal's stern watchdog role took a heavy personal toll. Troubled for years by a stomach ailment, he went on a liquid diet and an 18-hour workday. Snapped one Saudi who recently visited Feisal: "His dingy office was piled right to the ceiling with files, files, files. He insisted on signing everything personally...
...twins' real trouble, however, began when Nasser-despite his reservations about Akhbar-chose Mustafa Amin to accompany him to the U.N. last fall. This deeply offended Government Watchdog Shaker, who had counted on the trip for himself. Setting out to undermine the Amins' popularity with their employees, Shaker told Akhbar's printers that they should no longer submit to the twins' "capitalistic exploitation" and grandiosely promised all staffers a 40% pay raise...
...BUSINESS WATCHDOG wants more staff and money to step up its activities. After busiest year in its history, the Federal Trade Commission wants 70% more staff and a 50% increase over current $8,000,000 budget to intensify its campaign against misleading claims and antitrust violations...