Word: bailiwicks
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...Vinegar Bend") Mizell, 44, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development at $38,000 a year. A North Carolina Congressman and onetime major league pitcher with the St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates, Mizell served on a House subcommittee handling aid to depressed areas. "This is my kind of bailiwick so to speak," he says of his new job. "I think the opportunity to serve in an area where I had such a real interest and involvement led me to stay...
...began last October when the C.S.U., under his leadership, captured 62% of the vote in the Bavarian state elections, giving it the largest majority enjoyed by any party in any German state assembly. Since then, to demonstrate that he can draw crowds outside his rural, conservative and Roman Catholic bailiwick in Bavaria, he has barnstormed into Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and even the working-class, traditionally left-leaning Ruhr. This week Strauss flies off to Peking-at the invitation of the Chinese-to re-establish his credentials in foreign affairs...
Sources spoke of a widening chasm splitting the Yard between University Hall--Dunlop's bailiwick--and Massachusetts Hall--where Bok's fleet of young vice presidents and special assistants is based...
Dean Rosovsky is clearly the number-two man in the University. Although President Bok's Massachusetts Hall staff has made inroads into the University Hall bailiwick, Rosovsky will possess considerable influence, and it will be his job to insure that Mass Hall doesn't usurp any of other people's power...
...Within the Pope's own bailiwick, a veteran moral philosopher disobeyed Arrupe. A faculty member of the Jesuits' prestigious Gregorian Pontifical University since 1961, Father José Maria Diez-Alegria set off the squabble last December by publishing his autobiography, I Believe in Hope, without Jesuit clearance. The book is sympathetically leftist, and somewhat candid about priests' sexual frustrations, but what piqued Arrupe was Diez-Alegria's refusal to submit to Jesuit censorship before publication. Arrupe has since suspended the Spaniard from the society for two years. One important reason for his action: the case revived talk among a group...