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...same paragraph he reports that Jock had thrifty sets of golf-clubs and a servant to switch channels on his television set. Although no one bore him "jealousy or rancor," his wealth isolated him from other men. Kahn claims. But Kahn describes Whitney's social schedule as hectic and emphasizes that Jock drew friends from many walks of life. He had "a great emotional need to feel useful." Philanthropy filled the need but it raised the problem of where to send the checks. Yale or Groton...
...holiday. Hays is an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Baylor College of Medicine and medical director of its lactation clinic. On a typical night call at the clinic, she delivers as many as four new arrivals. She and Husband Ray, 38, a psychologist, have successfully blended hectic careers and child care by unrelenting planning. When she began her residency seven years ago, Hays was already mentally preparing for her first child. The arrangement with her superiors: in the last few months of her third year she would do pathology, a relatively cushy job sitting on a stool...
...local telephone operations. Trading in the stock was held up twice because the New York Stock Exchange was flooded with more orders than it could handle. Among them was one for an immense block of 1.3 million shares that was eventually acquired for $78.8 million. By the time the hectic week was over, 6.2 million shares changed hands. AT&T closed the week...
...hectic workday it's refreshing to come home to a cat whose only concerns are "feed me," "love me," and then "leave me alone." It is a good formula for humans as well...
Another highly effective White House aide, Chief Lobbyist Max Friedersdorf, resigned last week. Friedersdorf apparently quit for personal reasons; he had been hospitalized by an asthma attack last summer and took a less hectic job as U.S. consul general in Bermuda. He was replaced by Kenneth Duberstein, one of his chief assistants, who had proved adept at lining up votes for Reagan's programs in the Democratic-controlled House. Nonetheless, a lobbyist with Friedersdorf's skill in wooing legislators is bound to be missed...