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...airline industry is abuzz with rumors of an imminent management shakeup at Pan Am, but not all insiders agree that Halaby will be among the victims. A former Federal Aviation Administration chief in the Kennedy-Johnson era, Jeeb Halaby is well respected by his peers. "He's a dynamic speaker," said one, "and there's a little of the old Camelot about him." But there are others who note that it may take more than style to rescue...
...election to Congress. Dr. Edgar Berman, Hubert Humphrey's personal physician and confidant, sees plenty wrong with a female Chief Executive. When he said so to the Congresswoman from Hawaii at a meeting of the Democratic Party's Committee on National Priorities, he set Washington abuzz and feminists afire...
Soft Particles. For a while last week, medical circles were abuzz with a rumor that a U.S.-designed atom-powered pacemaker had also been implanted-in an American patient. That word proved to be premature; scientists at the National Heart and Lung Institute are still testing their prototypes in dogs...
Kingsley Hopkins Murphy climbed off a plane in Hartford and wearily wondered what perils awaited his boss, Hubert Humphrey, in Connecticut. Murphy had a week to "run the traps," as every advance man should, and his brain was abuzz with the axioms of his craft: "Make them come to you; get typists and a legman quick; be anonymous; don't spill news-dribble it out; stress unity; keep calm; avoid nonunion bands; don't make cameras shoot into the sun; be ready to pick up strays; beware of national committeewomen...
...While enduring those early hard times, the country's brightest law graduates dutifully toiled for relatively little. In 1963, the going rate for new associates at top Manhattan firms was only $7,200 a year-and much less in many other cities. But no more. Law students are abuzz with the news that the new rate at big New York law firms is $15,000 to start...