Word: bureau
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Unfortunately, this time the Defense Department, the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department are all split themselves. The State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research wears a gloomy mien that irks Secretary of State Dean Rusk and the optimistic deskmen of the East Asian bureau. In the Pentagon, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Defense Intelligence Agency are assembling a rosy picture of a seriously weakened enemy and a greatly improved South Vietnamese military machine, a vision shared by U.S. Commander General Creighton Abrams and his headquarters in Saigon. But the Defense Department's civilian...
...best-liked and most respected journalists in the U.S., who is depicted as a master of corporate tactics and intrigue. Talese calls him a "Times-man in the old sense, a man emotionally committed to the institution as a way of life, a religion, a cult." As Washington bureau chief in the early '60s, Reston developed a first-class staff and a close friendship with the publisher, the late Orvil Dryfoos (husband of an Ochs granddaughter). It was virtually impossible for editors in New York to over rule Reston, even though some out ranked him. "His artistry...
Punch Sulzberger became publisher in 1963. A year later, he put a New York editor in control of the Washington bureau. Reston told Sulzberger that he could not remain bureau chief under these circumstances; Sulzberger responded by making Reston an associate editor, but allowed him to choose Tom Wicker as his successor. With an "awareness of corporate whimsy, his knowledge of how executive wives can sometimes build the bridges that can more tightly bind their husbands," Reston suggested that the Wickers accompany the Sulzbergers on a month's visit to Europe. According to Talese's rather far-fetched...
...very strong position to pick off Washington's brightest talent. Last week one firm signed up three high-ranking Government officials as general partners. Manhattan's Lazard Freres & Co. recruited Commerce Secretary C. R. Smith, Under Secretary of the Treasury Frederick L. Deming and Assistant Budget Bureau Director Peter A. Lewis...
...years alone. Deming, 56, who oversaw international monetary affairs at the Treasury, will probably help on foreign loans and the other international deals, which are a large part of Lazard's business. Lewis, 38, an aide in the Housing and Urban Development Department before he joined the Budget Bureau last April, is likely to assist on urban real estate projects, another active area for Lazard...