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...words that cause more frustration and anger in day-to-day business than perhaps any others. Company policy aggravates the public which sometimes needs a little understanding, and it stifles creative employees who might want to use some initiative and take some responsibility. Now it could be that Helen Hayes as the stowaway in Airport gave old ladies such a bad name that they are immediately suspect upon entering the terminal, but it seems so much more likely that the woman had actually dropped her ticket. If the ticket agents or even the supervisors were given a little more room...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Lost in the Fog | 2/25/1984 | See Source »

...receiving end of Amfitheatrof's reports were Associate Editor John Kohan and Reporter-Researcher Helen Sen Doyle in New York City, who worked together on both the main chronicle of events and an accompanying assessment of the Soviet military's strength and political influence. Kohan and Doyle are both fluent Russian speakers who have traveled and worked in the Soviet Union. They have spent more than 26 years between them studying that secretive country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Feb. 20, 1984 | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

Markey sponsored the freeze bill passed by the House last year. Three prominent freeze activists, including Dr Helen Caldicott of Physicians for Social Responsibility, stood behind him when he announced his candidacy for Tsongas' seat...

Author: By Paul DUKE Jr., | Title: Shannon Bid for Senate Seat Threatens Favorites | 2/7/1984 | See Source »

...morning seminars in the Tennessee Williams Fine Arts Center, panelists mulled over such perennial problems as censorship and whether fiction will survive. The murmur of opinions was regularly punctuated by that strange modern cacophony, the sudden chorus of digital wristwatch alarms. From the audience, Helen McDonald (The Life and Times of Tondaleah Rosponowitz) asked, "Why are all these authors here? Is Key West the Paris of the '20s, the Tangier of the '60s?" Residents Thomas Sanchez (Rabbit Boss) and Philip Caputo (DelCorso's Gallery), who had been soberly addressing the topic "War and Peace hi the American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Key West: The Writer as a Star | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...State of Washington pays Helen Castrilli, a secretary at its largest mental hospital, $1,300 a month. But studies conducted by a consulting firm hired by the state calculated that her work is "worth" the same as the work of those in different jobs making $350 a month more. When Castrilli and eight other workers sued, claiming sex discrimination, a federal-court judge in Tacoma decided in their favor. That ruling is now being appealed by state officials, with the Reagan Administration considering joining in the case against Castrilli and her coworkers. The dispute is the latest battle over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Worthy but Knotty Question: Equal Pay for Comparable Work? | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

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