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...contempt case against Gorsuch. But it could do little to muffle the echoes of earlier Capital scandals: whining paper shredders, charges of lying under oath, mysterious erasures on subpoenaed documents, leaked memos and harassment of whistle blowers. Problems began for Lavelle soon after she assumed the $67,200-a-year EPA post ten months ago. Ambitious but short on administrative skills, "she came into the agency like a Mack truck," said one former EPA official. "She simply wasn't suited for a position at that level, and many people virtually ignored her." Her background was in the chemical industry...
...leave. Talented employees may go because they feel certain of finding other jobs, while deadwood workers, with no other employment options, may hang on. Polaroid, for example, suffered an unintended loss last May from its early-retirement plan. Richard Young, 56, who was Polaroid's $210,000-a-year director of worldwide marketing, "retired" with a hefty pension and later became president of Houghton Mifflin, the book publishers, at a slightly lower salary...
...dismissal will not affect Sellers $27,200-a-year, five-year grant, offered annually with "no strings attached" to 20 talented individuals by the MacArthur Foundation...
Last week Schweiker announced that he was resigning his $80,100-a-year post to become president of the American Council of Life Insurance, a lobbying group that represents 572 of the nation's life insurance companies. He will be succeeded at the agency (1983 budget: $276 billion) by Margaret Heckler, 51, a moderate Republican who served eight terms as Representative from Massachusetts until her defeat last November. Schweiker, whose new salary is reported to be in the low six figures, startled the White House with his sudden departure. Said a presidential aide: "It came as a surprise even...
Such was the scheme of Theode C. Langevin, 34, a six-year employee of the Federal Reserve Board who moved to E.F. Hutton in mid-November. During his last 18 months at the Fed, Langevin, a $37,300-a-year economist, was given daily access to the central bank's computer by telephone. When Langevin left his Washington job, his access code was canceled, but he had arranged to learn the code number of an unwitting colleague. On his very first day at his approximately $60,000-a-year job at Hutton, Langevin punched the number into a push...