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Reagan seemed remote indeed from the bustle of Washington, where his harried staff was trying to assemble a Cabinet. Reagan's aides announced the most crucial and controversial appointment to date: General Alexander Meigs Haig Jr., 56, as Secretary of State. They also named Raymond James Donovan, 50, a New Jersey construction executive as Reagan's nominee for Secretary of Labor. In addition, they were preparing a crash economic plan that Reagan is considering submitting to Congress within three weeks of his Inauguration; at a minimum, the program will put a freeze on federal hiring and cut spending...
...gritty Bayonne, N.J. An orphan at 17, he began as a $48-a-week laborer. Now, he is the principal stockholder of the $50 million-a-year Schiavone Construction Co. in Secaucus, a "realization of the American dream," he says proudly. But Ronald Reagan's choice of Raymond James Donovan, 50, to be Secretary of Labor probably owes less to his business acumen than to his accomplishments as a political fund raiser. By Donovan's own account, he raised more than $600,000 for Reagan in the past 18 months, a feat that vaulted him over the heads...
White dramatically canceled Saturday burials at all three municipal cemeteries to eliminate $360 a week in employee overtime payments. Bostonians were understandably vexed. "The mandate of the voters was not to curtail essential services," protested City Councilman Raymond Flynn. "Among the obligations we have is burial of the dead." Last week city hall resumed the Saturday graveyard shift. But there was no question about what else the mayor would like to bury. Says City Councilman Patrick McDonough: "City hall is rubbing the electorate's nose in such outrages as the Saturday burial ban, hoping that this will make them...
...Raymond Sokolov...
...honor would have gratified and amused him. Judging from Raymond Sokolov's biography, Liebling did not think he was an innovator but a perpetuator of a writing tradition at least as old as Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year. Liebling's prose remain s Raymond Sokolov convincing because it rarely asks the reader to believe more than the author saw, heard, smelled, touched and, of course...