Word: staff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...official in the ministry's weapons section, recruited both his wife and the third member of the trio, Jürgen Wiegel, 32, into the espionage ring. Wiegel, so far the only one to admit his guilt, was employed as a clerk in the ministry's naval staff...
...major daily to be started in the city of hoagies in 51 years, and the city's three largest dailies have begun protecting their flanks against the invader. The afternoon tabloid Daily News (circ. 232,000) is about to hire six new reporters for its 85-member news staff. The self-consciously respectable morning Inquirer (circ. 412,000) has added more racing news and gossip. At the evening Bulletin (circ. 556,000), reporters say privately that pressure is on to be livelier and more competitive...
...with something your company hasn't tasted before, something they don't even know how to pronounce." In Palm Beach, according to Skippy Harwood, food columnist for the Daily News, "there's nothing more chic right now than a small gourmet party prepared by the hostess, instead of her staff...
Gray will remain at Yale until next June. As Chicago's tenth president, she will have to deal with a celebrated and reputedly contentious faculty-which has included 42 Nobel prizewinners-as well as with some 2,500 studious and competitive undergraduates. Like Yale, Chicago has been making staff cutbacks, and a fund drive has fallen far short of its $280 million goal. Gray seems unintimidated. As one Chicago professor explains, "She knows the faculty and administration and has a sense of the student body's peculiarities." Says Gray, with a fine disregard of gender: "A university president...
DIED. Laurence Neal Woodworth, 59, genial Assistant Secretary of the Treasury who had been drafting President Carter's long-awaited tax-reform package; after suffering a stroke; in Newport News, Va. Woodworth served as a staff adviser to the tax-writing committees of Congress for more than 30 years, drafting some 1,000 tax bills...