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Those four were among a group of 16 business and economic experts Carter summoned to Plains last week for a four-hour brainstorming session. The Commerce Secretary and the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, as well as several lesser economic officials, may also come from this select 16-who had the potentially unnerving experience of offering their views in one another's presence even as Carter studied them to help determine his final choices...
They were Hughes' so-called Mormon Mafia, the six gentlemen in waiting who were recruited by Summa Corp. Vizier Bill Gay, himself a Mormon, and attended the anchoritic Croesus day and night, in eight-hour shifts. They were assisted by four physicians on 24-hour call and five lesser functionaries, including Gordon Margulis and Mell Stewart. For their services the six senior aides were (and apparently still are) paid as much as $110,000 a year each. They equipped his various hideaways, decided which messages would reach him, censored his reading matter. In short, they controlled Howard Hughes...
...Swiss art, as opposed to art that happened to be created in Switzerland. The country never fostered the influential art centers that flourished in Italy and France. It did give birth to at least two masters-Holbein and Fuseli. This volume includes them but concentrates on a host of lesser-knowns who moved uneasily-and not always satisfactorily-between wider European and narrower native traditions...
...Megan Lesser '78, chairman of the Leverett House committee, said Thursday that Davis Goodman '77, the Leverett House CHUL representative, intends to bring up the CRR issue at the next CHUL meeting...
Haight said that an exchange of a lesser sentence for the recovery of the missing coins was impossible because "such a deal would assume the defendants know where the coins are, but they are innocent...