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Friendly or merely fatuous, Americans seem to be first-naming everyone-lovers and strangers alike-with promiscuous enthusiasm. Even Boston has capitulated. Mrs. Alfred Titcomb, a dowager of Beacon Street, has decreed that henceforth she wishes to be addressed as "Mildred." The champion American first-namer may be Harold Davis, chairman of Georgia State University's journalism department, who says that he knows 10,000 people by their first names; he even teaches a course in how to duplicate this quintessentially American feat. Says Harold: "We are in a first-name society. Few people are called by their last...
...February 4, Walsh was summoned to Califano's office, and found Califano, Champion, and HEW's General Counseldesignate Thomas Barrett in the office. Walsh says Califano asked him if he had begun the Souza investigation, and then told him that he should henceforth clear all investigations with the General Counsel's office. Califano also asked Walsh to wait until after Barrett had drawn up a plant for the investigation...
Home in Humiliation. Meanwhile the King has regained his former standing with the major Arab countries. Scarcely two years ago, Arab leaders assembled for a summit meeting in Rabat and agreed that the Palestinians, rather than Hussein, should henceforth be responsible for the future of the West Bank and Gaza. Yasser Arafat, chairman of the P.L.O., journeyed from Rabat to New York to be lionized by the U.N. General Assembly. Hussein went home in humiliation...
...White House staff, Carter barred his senior aides from using Government limousines except for official business. On Carter's orders, twelve leased Chrysler sedans and eight other vehicles were removed from the White House fleet, which is now down to 36 cars for a staff of 485. Henceforth, outside working hours, staffers will have to depend on cabs or their own cars. When someone later asked Powell if he would install a phone in his private car, he drawled, "You're talking about a phone in my 1966 Volkswagen? It couldn't carry the extra weight...
...appeal has been filed, but until and unless a higher court overturns this judgment, the long but unofficial tradition of bugging journalists is henceforth decreed legal in France...