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...well Rosenthal and Hall will work together is still a matter of speculation. Rosenthal says that he is "bursting" with new ideas for the Press, which he will start instituting after he assumes command October 1. But when Hall became a member of the Board of Directors, he devised a management plan for the administration of the Press which in cluded a program that would balance the budget within five years. Wherever or not Rosenthal will be free to develop his own plan is yet to be decided...
...recently lived in a $50-a-month cold-water flat and who earned only about $4,000 for his video stint, figures to make about $100,000 or so this year from books, lectures and personal appearances. Said he happily: "Now a top chess teacher will be able to command what a top psychiatrist gets...
...Gentlemen," chirped a girlish voice, "start your engines!" At the third annual California 500 in Ontario, Calif., the racing cars roared, bystanders gawked and pit lizards-the racing scene's version of groupies-quivered with anticipation. Despite the forceful command from Tricia Nixon Cox, it rained so hard that the whole thing had to be postponed for two hours. Besides her husband Edward Cox, among the aficionados were Otis Chandler, Candice Bergen, Paul Newman (who has a hotrod engine hidden beneath his Volkswagen's middle-class bustle) and Barry Goldwater (who arrived and departed via helicopter). For Tricia...
Iowa's Democratic Senator Harold Hughes, however, has been pressing for a fuller investigation. "The primary issue is not General Lavelle," Hughes told the Senate, "but the command and control system which permitted-and then allowed to be concealed-the unauthorized attacks against North Viet Nam. Nor should General Lavelle be made the lone scapegoat if it turns out that others in the chain of command are also responsible...
...Betty") Stark, 91, ranking U.S. naval officer at the time of Pearl Harbor; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Stark was appointed Chief of Naval Operations in 1939 by President Roosevelt, but after Japan's 1941 surprise attack, he was relieved of his post and transferred to command of U.S. naval forces in Europe. Though highly decorated during World War II, the Pearl Harbor disaster haunted Stark's career. Before his retirement in 1946, he was criticized by a Naval court of inquiry for failing to exercise "superior judgment" during the critical two weeks preceding the attack...