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...position charges that the "principal fortune" of the Internal Security Committee and its predecessor, the House Committee on Un-American Activities. "hat been to probe and expose the beliefs, opinions and associations of American citizens...
Moving. He has appointed his McGovernite predecessor, Jean Westwood, to the Charter Commission, which has the job of setting up a mid-term party convention in 1974. George Meany, one of Strauss's principal backers, is unhappy with United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock because he supported McGovern. But Strauss will keep Woodcock as chairman of the Commission on Delegate Selection...
...fully test his vaunted administrative skills. A combination of shrewdness and steadfastness under fire is expected to pull him through. He sees eye to eye with Henry Kissinger and is not likely to offer any rebuffs on foreign policy. While he lacks the clubby relations with Congress that his predecessor Melvin Laird enjoyed, he has more of an appetite for overall strategy and administrative detail. Balancing the relatively liberal Richardson at Defense-and no doubt adding to his troubles-will be a new Deputy Secretary, William P. Clements, an outspoken Texas oil millionaire who vociferously opposes defense cuts...
Holding Fire. Domestically, Peterson has performed the Commerce Secretary's job as liaison man between business and Government with much more sensitivity to modern trends than his predecessor, Maurice Stans, who later became Nixon's campaign treasurer. Indeed, the 46-year-old Peterson, who dresses in dark suits augmented by flashy ties, square-toed shoes and gold-rimmed glasses, seems more than just one generation more mod than the 64-year-old Stans. Stans took the business side in almost every dispute; among other things, he decried tough anti-pollution regulations and defended the clubbing of Alaskan seals...
TALLULAH by Brendan Gill. 287 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. $25. This is the second in an informal series of lavish productions about great names in show business. It suffers badly in comparison with Cole, its predecessor, which among other things re-created the all-out sheer pizazz of the '30s. Porter was a genius, Bankhead a personality. Cole's lyrics enriched the previous book incalculably; in this volume Critic Brendan Gill, who treats her life with proper studied indulgence, confesses that most of Tallulah's talk worth repeating is unprintable...