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...RAUL WINSTON MCCRACKEN is a leading figure in America's new elite: the activist intellectuals, who simultaneously serve universities, corporations and Government. In all three of these areas, he helps to make high policy. He is, variously: 1) a full professor at the University of Michigan, 2) a board member of half a dozen companies and consultant to many other firms, 3) the author of countless economic monographs and books, 4) an adviser to government officials. Still, when Richard Nixon last week named him to the position of the chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers...
Have Another. That sort of strategy would have appealed to the company's early champion, Winston Churchill. As First Lord of the Admiralty in 1914, Churchill got the government to bankroll B.P.'s tottering predecessor, the pioneering Anglo-Persian Oil Co., thus ensuring fuel for the Royal Navy through two world wars. An equally happy mix of politics and oil has been overdue for Drake, who will formally take over from ailing Chairman Sir Maurice Bridgeman in January. Last year's closing of the Suez Canal forced shipping costs up; then came the Biafran civil war, which...
...Novelist C. P. Snow (The Corridors of Power, The Two Cultures), who is celebrated for his observations on the disparity between the worlds of science and the humanities. Lord Snow issued his warning last week as he delivered the John Findlay Green lecture at Westminster College, Fulton, Mo. (where Winston Churchill made his classic "iron curtain" speech in 1946). In effect, Snow said that Malthus' gloomy prognostication might be borne out within a generation...
ANTI-MEMOIRS by Andr éMalraux. Translated by Terence Kilmartin. 420 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
...newest cigarette commercials on TV, but it looks as old as the George Washington Hills. A Marlboro-type man is seen puffing happily in a duck blind. Cut. The sound track plays Smoke Gets in Your Eyes while a Winston kind of couple revels in a shipboard romance. Cut. A Salem-style twosome, high on tobacco and each other, enjoy an apres-ski spree. How can such a splice-up of burnt-out cliches sell cigarettes? That's the point. The voiceover during the 60-second spot has been saying right along: "Cigarette smoke contains some interesting elements: carbon monoxide...