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First as head of the department's criminal division and then as the number two man, he was handed the toughest problems the Department of Justice faced. He took over the investigation of FBI break-ins when five other lawyers quit in a dispute with Bell. It was Civiletti who journeyed to South Korea to negotiate for permission to question Washington influence-peddler Tong-sun Park. And when Bell decided to remove David W. Marston, the Republican U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia who was investigating a Democratic Congressman, Civiletti reassured Marston's staff that their pursuit of political corruption...
...particularly want to be chief of staff, but he vowed, "If I do it, it won't be done in a half-assed way." As he took command last week, he seemed determined to carry out that pledge. Said he: "I'll have to change in a number of ways. I'll have to change my approach and my attitude to my work. I know what I do well and what I don't do well. What I do well is, I plan. I am organized in my head. I am not a person who relishes...
...Carter economic team started work in an atmosphere of high hopes. Rarely had an Administration mobilized such formidable economic firepower, filling the Cabinet with five Ph.D. economists: Blumenthal, Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps, Labor Secretary Ray Marshall, Energy Secretary James Schlesinger and Chief Economist Charles Schultze. In addition, a number of Carter's appointees possessed impressive managerial credentials. Blumenthal had headed the Bendix Corp., one of the nation's best-run firms, while Bert Lance, Carter's first Budget Director, was a highly successful banker...
...three-volume biography, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, Ernest Jones insists that The Interpretation of Dreams "had been hailed as fantastic and ridiculous." Comments Sulloway: "Actually the book was widely and favorably reviewed in popular and scientific periodicals and it was recognized by a good number of its reviewers as 'epochmaking' and 'profound.'" Freud portrayed the cool reaction to an 1886 speech he gave on male hysteria as pigheadedness by an entrenched medical Establishment. In Sulloway's view, the doctors were unimpressed because Freud's message was old-hat-the bumptious young...
There are now 36 Radcliffe trustees. Six are chosen by a vote of Radcliffe alumnae every four years, and the rest are chosen by the previous board. There is no set number of trustees...