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Last Monday Assistant Publisher Lane Fortinberry, White House Correspondent Dean Fischer and I had the pleasure of presenting a special leather-bound copy of our Bicentennial issue to our highest ranking reader, Gerald Ford. Our appointment was delayed by a strategy session of the National Security Council. That meeting, we later discovered, had focused on ways to respond to the Cambodian seizure of the merchant ship Mayaguez (see cover story). Unruffled by the developing crisis, the President greeted us warmly and leafed through the special edition. He paused at the People section, laughing over colonial Dr. Benjamin Rush...
Biggest Threat. The first meeting failed to name a campaign director. Laird was everybody's first choice, but he declined, preferring to stay on as a troubleshooter for The Reader's Digest Association Inc. Another possibility is Donald Rumsfeld, White House chief of staff. Rumsfeld might be reluctant to give up his powerful post for the rigors of managing a tough campaign, but if he thought the President was in serious danger of losing, he would probably make the plunge. George Bush, chief of the U.S. liaison office hi Peking, has also been mentioned. An adroit U.S. Ambassador...
...right away. Auteurist orthodoxy is so much a part of the serious movie-goer's mental baggage that the idea of a good film being produced by an awful director seems a contradiction in terms. And Allen has compounded the problem by acting like some Cahiers du Cinema reader's idea of a Big Bad Hollywood Producer. Allen told the august Arts and Leisure Section of the New York Times that he made The Towering Inferno for the money and nothing else and threatened us with 19 follow-ups, a string of Sons of Towering Inferno's for which...
BREACH OF FAITH by THEODORE H. WHITE 356 pages. Atheneum-Reader's Digest Press...
...figure but it's hard to take either him or his dilemma too seriously. After 348 pages of diary writing he concludes that "it's far too late for anything I do to make a difference in how I am regarded by posterity." This has been apparent to the reader all along and it's never become clear why posterity will regard him at all. Swados never establishes Lumen as a representative figure like Rubashov in Darkness at Noon: at best, he's a composite of Bertrand Russell and William O. Douglas and maybe some World War I pacifist like...