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Moving Jordan. The Eisenhower and Nixon staffs had pyramidal organizations, with one or two men controlling access to the President. Carter's aides describe their setup as a wheel: the President is the hub and his top assistants are the spokes-equally positioned, in theory, to feed the boss with information and advice from many quarters. The reality is somewhat different...
...heavyweights: President Lee A. lacocca, 52, and Philip Caldwell, 57, until now the company's adept executive vice president in charge of Ford's operations outside the U.S. (with $8 billion in annual sales, the largest of any U.S. auto company). The arrangement appeared to be a setup that would allow some other executive to bridge the gap until a younger Ford can run the company. Best guess for the wielder of transitional power: the little-known Caldwell...
Park sees every Eastern League contest as important now, because "it's the same thing as the hockey setup. You go into the regional playoffs on the basis of percentage only, not according to who you beat during the season. We've got to win as many as we can," he said. COLUMBIA AB R H BI Brown, r.f. 3 1 2 0 Bauld, s.s. 3 1 0 0 Murphy, Ib 4 0 0 0 Wilhite, c.f. 4 0 2 2 Backus, 3b 4 1 1 1 Purcell, 2b 4 0 0 0 McAvoy, I.f. 3 0 0 0 Ramirez...
...children home from school so that they could watch the events on television. Instead, they are home on Columbus Day, Washington's Birthday, Lincoln's Birthday, when the only thing they see is the sales in the department stores. Congress should rethink our entire national holiday setup...
...setup. Mikey (Peter Falk) comes to the rescue of his best friend Nicky (John Cassavetes), who has shot a bookie and is holed up in a fleabag Philly hotel, going crazy. Nicky trusts no one. He has only one article of faith -that there is a contract out on him and he will be offed as sure as next morning's sunrise...