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...which he tries to make every world event conform. But unless the foreign policy chief can relate events in one part of the world to those in another, and shape a strategy that pursues the same goals in all, he is likely to be trapped in a series of ad hoc, inconsistent responses to breaking crises...
...ad for the nation's largest brokerage house reads MERRILL LYNCH IS BULLISH ON AMERICA. In naming a Treasury Secretary, Ronald Reagan wanted to send a similar message of confidence to the nation, especially its business community. Who better to carry it than Merrill Lynch's own chairman, Donald Thomas Regan...
Lean (6 ft. 1 in., 175 Ibs.) and handsome as a cigarette-ad cowboy, Baldrige lives with his wife Margaret, the first woman member of the local volunteer fire department, on a rambling estate in Woodbury. The couple have two grown daughters. Baldrige first began riding at age seven in Nebraska. He took up steer roping in the 1950s, turned professional in the late '60s, and now competes in an average of eight rodeos a year. "I just plain like it," he once said. "I like the timing, the coordination, the partnership with a good horse, the excitement...
During the past semester, the Dowling Committee--an ad hoc student-Faculty committee named after its chairman, John E. Dowling, professor of Biology--has met bi-monthly to consider the role of the assembly and possibilities for strengthening student government. The committee is now preparing to write its initial report; it will probably propose a plan that would incorporate the assembly into the mainstream of University decision-making and possibly would provide the group with a $60,000 annual budget. Students, Faculty and the Corporation would all have to approve such a plan--by voting on it this spring...
Then the New Right took on Jim Folsom, who had beaten Democratic Senator Donald Stewart in the primary. An intense ad campaign suggested that Folsom was backed by the Democratic National Committee and therefore supported its stands on ERA, gun control, federal funding of abortions, and gay rights. Not only did Folsom endorse none of those positions, but he insists he took no money from the D.N.C. On Nov. 4, Folsom lost, 48% to 51%, to Denton. The Moral Majority, says Folsom, had "a tremendous effect on my defeat...