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Last week, though, Carter decided that, yes, he could drop Burns and life would go on pretty much as usual. In a move that surprised official Washington and caught Burns off guard while he was on vacation in Florida, the President picked as Burns' successor a man whose name had never come up in public speculation: G. (for George) William Miller, 52, chairman and chief executive of Textron Inc., one of the nation's first and most successful corporate conglomerates...
...thinking now and then, and he'll have to think this over carefully." His decision may well be no. He could make good money on the lecture circuit, in the manner of Henry Kissinger or Gerald Ford. He does not seem to regard Miller as a dangerous radical whose influence would have to be countered. And after having had the chairman's weight, Arthur Burns is not likely to settle for being just another governor Says Andrew Brimmer, a Reserve Board governor for more than half of Burns' eight years as chairman: "I cannot imagine his moving...
...sing but has no voice, and that he delights in telling jokes but usually laughs so hard at them that he botches the punch lines. Otherwise, Miller sounds like a business version of a Boy Scout: frugal, industrious, a sharp manager, something of a social activist-and a man whose likely moves as the nation's supreme money manager are impossible to predict from his career...
Sales were considerably helped by Sunday openings in many states, including New York. The legislature in Massachusetts, whose "blue laws" banning Sunday business go back to pre-Revolutionary times, gave in and allowed shopkeepers to stay open on the four Sundays before Christmas. Officials made little effort to enforce Sunday closings even where the law requires them. In Baltimore, some retailers stayed open the Sunday before Christmas, defying the Maryland legislature, which had considered and rejected Sunday openings. One store was fined $100 and the others got away with mere warnings...
...ordinary life, but not entirely dis connected from it either?are not made in a single film. They grow out of a lot movies and eventually turn them all into mere incidents in the larger and more absorbing drama of the star career. Consider Eastwood's moralistic killer, whose cold eyes are set off by his incongruously boyish voice and smile, or Reynolds' good-ole-boy con man, shooting from the lip as fast as Eastwood shoots from the hip. The comparison is not with their contemporary peers but with the major figures of the great age of screen heroism...