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Show of Unity. Later, Nixon held court at the residence of the U.S. ambassador, seeing at hourly intervals West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Italian Premier Mariano Rumor. France's new President, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, did not attend the NATO meeting; he remained in Paris to conclude a $5 billion trade deal with Iran (see THE WORLD). The Europeans were happy-if matter-of-factly realistic-about the Brussels session. The U.S. got a public show of Atlantic unity before Moscow, and the allies got both a continued commitment that U.S. troops...
Rodino, 65, attempted in procedural disputes to be more the committee's chairman than its ranking Democrat. Thus he was long able to maintain a high degree of bipartisanship. In this situation, party leadership on a day-to-day basis fell to the senior Democrat, Harold Donohue of Massachusetts. But he is 73 and feeling his age. By default, Jack Brooks of Texas, 51, became a central figure on the Democratic side...
Within hours after making the figures public, Harold V. Gleason resigned as chairman and president, completing an almost total wipe-out of Franklin's top management. He took the new post of executive vice chairman, and was succeeded as chief executive by Joseph W. Barr, a former Democratic Congressman from Indiana arid Secretary of the Treasury during the last few weeks of Lyndon Johnson's Administration. Frightened depositors continued to withdraw their savings. The bank lost more than $100 million in deposits last week, bringing withdrawals to $930 million, or almost a third of the $3 billion deposits...
That sly, unpredictable and difficult old Dutch master of abstract expressionism, Willem de Kooning, turned 70 this year. Ever since the '40s it has been De Kooning's fate, as Harold Rosenberg once observed, to be considered in decline; almost every change in his art, from the Women series of 1951 to the gnarled, glowering bronze figures that occupy him now, has been greeted as a retreat from some previous aesthetic win. Embracing contradictions, De Kooning refuses to be typecast. "I think," he declared in 1949, "it is the most bourgeois idea to think one can make...
...thought that the statistics were sometimes sparse, that they should and would be subjected to extreme scrutiny. Many pointed out the limitations of economics in re-creating the past. Historian Harold Woodman noted, for in stance, that the book's use of per capita income as an index of economic growth is questionable when applied to a nonindustrial society. Economic Historian Murray Rothbard said, "Cliometrics doesn't work for the current economy, so how could it work on information from 1860?" Sociologist Orlando Patter son questioned some of the inferences that Fogel and Engerman draw from their statistics...