Word: liaisons
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...weekly Observer said that the BBC maintained an MI5 liaison office, now under the guidance of Brigadier Ronnie Stonham, an ex-army intelligence specialist, and that MI5 spied on some BBC staff members, collected information about employee political views, and too often got things wrong. Reporter Isabel Hilton allegedly was refused a job in 1976 because investigators had confused an apolitical group to which she belonged with a leftist organization...
...Eastern Educational Network, the distributor of the games, has hired former CBS vice-president Barry Frank to produce the series. Frank served last year as the liaison between the Ivy League and Greg Harney Productions but had no hand in the production...
...educational issues, the past year has witnessed a marked escalation in tactics. "Harvard has had traditionally a leading spokesman role in American higher educaion. I wish more colleges would do that--it would make things much easier down here," says Lawrence S. Zaglaniczny, an American Council on Education congressional liaison. The step-up occurred, he adds, because while "in the two years before the election it was virtually a foregone conclusion that Congress would reject any aid cuts, with the president's mandate it was much more serious...
Though Eliot corresponds with a network of women friends, her governing passion is for men. In her boldest act, she chooses to live with the science writer George Henry Lewes, even though he can never legally free himself from his conspicuously unfaithful wife. Eliot's scandalous but happy liaison with Lewes produces few letters, because for 24 years the couple are hardly ever out of each other's sight. Still, Eliot's correspondence is full of references to the man who insists that she write fiction and who encourages his self- doubting and often depressed companion, novel after novel...
...trouper in the White House is playing one scene at a time, hoping to put together a string of successes like the one last week. "This was the first real test as to whether it's a healthy or a lame duck," said White House Congressional Liaison W. Dennis Thomas. "And this bird flew...