Word: seniors
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...Science story on the flight of the sky shuttle Enterprise was reported by Houston Correspondent George Taber and written by Associate Editor Peter Stoler, who journeyed to Edwards Air Force Base to get the feel of the place and plan the coverage. In New York, it was checked by Senior Reporter-Researcher Sydnor Vanderschmidt. Watching Enterprise 's touchdown on TV, Researcher Vanderschmidt experienced a special kind of journalist's empathy. She is a sailplane pilot herself...
...given since getting Carter elected. A White House task force under Jordan fired off wires to all 534 members of Congress, urging them to approach the treaty with open minds. White House emissaries were planning to ask for help from Gerald Ford, Nelson Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger. Says a senior White House adviser: "A major job of lobbying and education must be done immediately ?fireside chats, the works, or we're going to lose on the Hill...
...years of decolonization since 1945 has shown that however big the army you deploy, you cannot win against a hostile population and terrain?which in Panama means taking on a population of 2 million and 50 miles of jungle plus 1,000 miles of semitropical hell." Adds a senior British diplomat: "A U.S. strategy of holding on to the Canal Zone by force would be tantamount to following a strategy devised in Moscow...
Concerning his specific deanship, the new appointee sees his task as one of promoting coherence and a sense of unity among the freshman class, primarily through the serious training of proctors and senior advisers, and increasing the availability of the Freshman Dean's Office itself. He identifies the freshman advising scheme, a perennial can of worms, as one that is "centralized and decentralized at once," in which many students are unaware that the Freshman Dean's Office exists as a source of advice and support for freshman. To many freshmen, the office has been simply a group of faces, sometimes...
...improve the financial pages by expanding the staff and adding regular reports on careers, management, technology and other subjects. The once sternly liberal and generally predictable editorial page has brightened since its editor?and Sulzberger's cousin?John Oakes, 64, was made a senior editor last January. The new oracle-in-chief, Max Frankel, 47, a former Washington bureau chief, has moved editorial policy a little closer to Sulzberger's own middle-of-the-road pragmatism and initiated a number of features, including "Topics," a collection of short and sometimes snappy commentaries. Frankel (who reports directly to Publisher Sulzberger...