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...corporation; of a brain tumor; in Milan. A onetime professor of statistics, Boldrini joined ENI in 1948 as president of its distributing company, and was vice president of the sprawling complex by the time Mattei died in a plane crash; critics dismissed the 72-year-old statistician as an "interim pope," but in his five-year reign he proved to be as expansive and guileful as his predecessor, plunging ENI into extensive new operations in Egypt, the Congo and South America, and playing East against West by bargaining for crude oil from both the Soviet Union...
...Meir's supporters want her to take the interim premiership to head off a showdown between two younger contenders, whose rivalry might otherwise divide the government and country between now and October. They are Allon, 50, the favorite of the party establishment, and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, 53, whose immense popularity with the grass roots is not shared by the party brass. Something of a lone wolf, Dayan is not one either to seek or accept advice, and is considered unpredictable and undisciplined by the staunch conservatives of the Labor Party machine. A pragmatist who operates largely on intuition...
...statements may also come back to haunt him, especially his 1965 report, as Assistant Secretary of Labor, on disintegration of the Negro family. The latest figures, unfortunately, back him up only too well: the nationwide rate of black illegitimacy has increased from 23.6% to 29.4% in the interim. But the Moynihan report was attacked by Negro leaders, including James Farmer, the recently named Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, who charged that Moynihan had used "haphazard judgment" and stacked figures that glossed over white promiscuity...
...been meeting twice a week. So far there have been no far-reaching decisions on any major issue, but interim decisions of considerable significance are being made for the future. In some of them, Kissinger's thinking has been clearly evident...
...Hague to be on the streets, and the desk sergeant at police headquarters was baffled by the middle-aged Chinese, clad in pajamas and raincoat, who stood before him. From the mixture of broken Dutch and poor English, the problem resolved itself: the man was Liao Ho-shu, 46, interim chief of Communist China's mission in The Netherlands, and he wanted police protection. After some delay, he was turned over to the Dutch BVD (security police), who whisked him off for interrogation at a spacious, secluded castle called "Hoge Veluwe." "He told us his story from...