Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same size as those of other committee chairmen. Generally in their 20s and 30s, his aides are exceedingly loyal and enthusiastic, and heartily disliked by colleagues on Capitol Hill for always putting Kennedy's interests first. Unlike most Senate staffs, Kennedy has no office manager. The senior men report directly to Kennedy. The most important aide is ten-year veteran Carey Parker, 44, Kennedy's balding, warmly humorous chief legislative assistant. The other top aides include Stephen Breyer, 41, who took a leave from his professorship at Harvard Law School to serve as chief counsel to the Judiciary Committee; Lawrence...
TIME's Robert Ajemian recently joined Ted and Patrick for dinner at Kennedy's home. His report: he Senator stood in the bedroom, dressing for a night swim and needling Patrick about the cold pool waiting outside. Kennedy slipped off the canvas back brace he usually wears under his suit, put on his khaki trunks and flipped on a small color TV set. Suddenly Jimmy Carter's face appeared on the screen, speaking of politics and 1980. Kennedy, his arms folded and a hand at his mouth, watched intently, never moving. As Carter spoke, the son looked back and forth...
...about halfway through the show transforms her into a voice of the common people, instructing the MPs on their duties, telling them, "The people don't care about what you do on your own time--it's only the newspapers," and eventually writing the draft of the committee report...
...report concluded that because, once admitted, students shared the same University resources, the policy of separate admissions committees was "anachronistic." Although the committee's recommendation called for equal access to be instituted "as soon as practical that is for the admission of the class of 1980," the process of combining admissions committees, in effect, began more than a year before...
Schwalbe recalls that immediately following the combination "the lines of authority were not clearly defined. The Radcliffe staff wanted to report to me, and Fred's staff wanted to report to him." Despite minor problems at the outset, the committee soon began operating smoothly, she adds...