Word: staff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...handled such special and sensitive missions as arranging the return of the Hungarian crown, dealing with Micronesian demands for self-rule, seeking a settlement on Cyprus and coordinating the Belgrade conference on human rights for the State Department. A Rhodes scholar and whiz kid member of the White House staff under Lyndon Johnson while in his 20s, Nimetz has been tapped by Vance for the difficult job of coordinating the State Department's campaign to sell any proposed SALT agreement to Congress and the country...
...finally, without trying to interfere in The Crimson's internal affairs, I would suggest that its reputation has been damaged by Emmerich's article, and that The Crimson Staff is owed some restitution. --James D. Weinrich Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows
STUDENTS AT the University of Massachusetts at Amherst are making that effort, doing that organizing, right now. They are putting together a union of students, based on councils within departments and dorms, with a small administrative staff to do basic research, coordinate council agendas, and help mobilize student opinion on University-wide issues. Their effort has been two years in the making, and may require another two years before it includes the whole university. But the students are making changes at UMass-Amherst already, in areas like the hiring and firing of teachers, course selection and requirements, and housing policy...
Close readers might also have blamed the Trib. Despite its attempt to look fresh, the paper more often looked merely gray, with a static layout and a paucity of eye-catching pictures. The Trib often seemed overloaded with wire copy and canned columnists, undersupplied with compelling staff-written stories. Probably the paper's most memorable scoop was a report that David Frost had gone to San Clemente to edit Richard Nixon's memoirs. The David Frost in question turned out to be a copy editor of that name in the employ of the book's publisher...
...Trib even missed the story of its own death. Unable to come up with the check for roughly $23,000 that the paper's New Jersey printer demanded each night before rolling the presses, Saffir canceled what would have been the self-proclaimed final edition. The staff calmly broke out some beer and began cleaning out their desks...