Word: staff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have no trouble relaxing at his Washington home, where he lives with his wife, Mary, a silk-screen artist; they have three children. Kahn swims, skis, jogs and likes to sing Gilbert and Sullivan tunes. A certain whimsy is often on display. In a memo he once urged his staff to avoid gobbledygook and write "as though you are talking to or communicating with real people. I have heard it said that style is not substance, but without style what is substance?" Kahn concluded: "A final example of pomposity, probably, is this memo itself...
...report detailed how the committee's staff had compared Brooke's checkbook with other records and found that a number of entries had been obliterated or changed. One of them concerned an Oct. 4, 1972, bank deposit for $27,500 that was originally recorded in the checkbook as a loan from the Bank of Montreal. But when Brooke's lawyers submitted his checkbook to the Ethics Committee, the $27,500 was listed as a return of capital on an investment. Brooke and his lawyers claim that the alteration was made to correct a clerical error...
Nevertheless, Geraldine Ferraro eagerly trots down the campaign trail, suffering the trials common to all candidates as well as those peculiar to women. A staff member makes a scheduling mistake, and she ends up at a marina when she is supposed to be at another boat basin; the March of Dimes bike-a-thon starts without her. As she walks down a Queens street handing out literature, one woman whispers to her husband: "She's very pretty, isn't she?" A man urges her to "get the electric chair going as soon as possible." At a housing project, a middle...
After the Mass celebrating the start of his ministry, the new Pope strode to the edge of the crowd, carrying his heavy, crucifix-topped staff. Then, with a vigorous gesture reminiscent of Eastern Orthodox services, he thrust it up like a giant sword of faith. When a young boy rushed out with flowers, a Vatican official tried to shoo him off. John Paul called the boy forward and hugged...
After these high, fast steps, The Duchess of Duke Street hits its stride. The hotel provides a center for succeeding episodes, and a staff of regular characters assembles. There is Mary (Victoria Plucknett), Louisa's adoring assistant, and Major Smith-Barton (Richard Vernon), a guest at the hotel who becomes his landlady's sidekick and confidant. Comic relief appears with Merriman (John Welsh), a teetering old headwaiter, and Starr (John Cater), the imperturbable hall porter. Asked by Louisa during his job interview whether he fought in the Boer War, Starr gazes at her evenly and pauses. "Very possibly," he finally...