1963

You may recall that I wrote in a column last fall that Tim Kraft said he would not go to Washington if his employer, Jimmy Carter, won the presidential election. Tim didn't keep his word, but then, neither did Rep. Andrew Young, Carter's leading black adviser, who promised he would remain in Congress rather than join the new administration. Tim and United Nations Ambassador Young may be excused for not denying the country their services.

Tim was made President Carter's ap- pointments secretary - the so-called gatekeeper to the Oval Office - after the original appointee withdrew himself from consideration. He apprenticed for the White House by directing field operations for the Carter campaign. His immediate superior was Hamilton Jordan, one of Carter's chief aides.

If you watched NBC Television's January dramatization of Israel's rescue of 100 hostages at Entebbe, that was another class thespian, Steve Macht, in the role of Yonni Natayanhu, the commando officer who died during the raid.

Fred Adams has a new book out: EconomicDiplomacy: The Export-Import Bank andAmerican Foreign Policy, 1934-39, published by the University of Missouri Press. Fred, who is now a professor of history at Drake University in Des Moines, lowa, contends in the book that legislation enlarging the bank's lending authority allowed the Roosevelt administration to conduct certain foreign affairs without congressional oversight. Fred joined the Drake faculty in 1969 and received the university's award for outstanding undergraduate teaching in 1974.

Pete Brown writes that he encountered MikeEmerson last fall in the Seattle airport. Mike is based there as a lawyer for Boeing.

Doug Bell is finishing up his two-year tour at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital and looking for a practice in southern New England. Doug still plays rubgy. Wife Susan, Kevin 13, Leslie 7, and a golden retriever cheer from the sidelines.

Jim Palik recently became a partner of Ladas, Parry, Von Gehr, Goldsmith and Deschamps, a patent and trademark law firm in New York City.

As I write this, 40-mile-an-hour gusts are driving the wind-chill factor down to about minus 50. It makes me glad I have no dog to walk. It also makes me think of Hanover in mid-June.

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