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...least enviable jobs in Washington this winter is held by the youngest member of President Johnson's cabinet: Commerce Secretary Alexander Buel Trowbridge, 37. On him falls the burden of enforcing the first mandatory controls on private investment abroad, restrictions that constitute the largest element of Johnson's program to cut the U.S. balance of payments deficit by $3 billion this year...
...Alexander Buel Trowbridge, it was like a ticket to oblivion when he was appointed Acting Secretary of Commerce last January. The President had just announced that he aimed to eliminate Trowbridge's department-and his job-by merging Commerce and Labor into one superdepartment. Last week, in the face of unrelenting resistance to the merger in Congress and among labor leaders, Lyndon Johnson gave Commerce a new lease on life and, providing "Sandy" Trowbridge with at least temporary job security, nominated him full-fledged secretary of the reprieved department...
Svetlana Stalina was not alone last week in winning her freedom from Russia. A Soviet appeals court lifted the three-year labor-camp sentence imposed last December on Buel Ray Wortham, 25, of Little Rock, Ark., who had been convicted of stealing an antique statue of a bear from a Leningrad hotel and of changing money on the black market (TIME, Dec. 30). In place of the prison sentence, Wortham was ordered to pay a 5,000-ruble ($5,555) fine. The decision came after a plea by a group of Little Rock townfolk, who had promised to pay whatever...
...offer is tempting. Whereas the ruble is officially pegged at $1.11, the tourist can get it on the black market for anywhere from 25? to 66?. But it is also dangerous, as two young American tourists discovered last week. Hauled before a Leningrad court were Buel Ray Wortham, 25, of North Little Rock, Ark., and Craddock M. Gilmour, 24, of Salt Lake City, who had made the mistake of talking about their black-market dealings in the presence of their Intourist guide. In addition, Wortham was accused of stealing a "national treasure" from his Leningrad hotel room...
...premised. This is a belief in the value of dispassionate, rational inquiry into the nature of things... It is difficult for me to see how understanding will ever be achieved if the spirit which at times manifested itself during the question period last Friday night should prevail. Richard Buel Teaching Fellow in History