POWER: Power Politics

Automakers are not the only businessmen who have to thread their way through a smoke-blue Washington feud. Last week utilitymen had one too.

OPM named a coordinator for its power section: tall, aggressive, young (33) Julius A. Krug. According to OPM, Krug will "handle all defense power problems." Krug lost no time in taking these words at face value. He romped through press conferences, held many a private interview. There was talk of his setting up an advisory committee to review the whole power situation. Then he announced a three-point OPM program to: 1) create three vast regional power pools;...

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