Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week last January, a pack of reporters from every major media outlet descended upon Cambridge and put the University's seemingly callous action in America's spotlight. Dozens of phone calls from every state in the Union flooded the Harvard News Office in what turned out to be a public relations fiasco of national proportions...
...phone just wouldn't stop ringing," says an official who remembers the weeks which followed the news that the Center's director, Nadav Safran, had used more than $150,000 of the CIA's money to fund academic work. "From Voice of America, from Kuwait, Iran, Iraq--from all over the world--they wanted to know about our work...
When Harvard graduates pick up the phone, open their mail, or answer the door, they may very well find a anxious plea from their alma mater...
...question of Cuomo's treatment of his staff arose. He is upset by criticism that he squelches them. He knows he pushes hard but is proud of their work. Suddenly Cuomo reached for the nearby phone and dialed the Governor's office. It was 11 p.m. Chief of Staff Gerald Crotty answered, still on the job. Cuomo smiled to himself, spoke a few lines and hung up. Stories about his temper, Cuomo said, are way out of date. He takes criticism far less personally now. He has stopped calling to complain to writers; these days it causes too much commotion...
...Navy didn't claim him until 1959, four years after Mighty Mo was mothballed in Bremerton, Wash. In fact, Kennedy never figured to serve a day on her. He had retired in 1979 and was working as a security guard in the federal court in San Diego when the phone rang on his birthday, Dec. 13, 1984. His wife Marilyn took the call and relayed the unexpected invitation from the Chief of Naval Operations. "You jumped on that like a buzzard on a dead cow," she told him as he went out the door the next morning...