Word: staff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...irony in the fact that it was you, a past research officer in Bantu Affairs on the staff of Dr. Verwoerd, father of apartheid, who was to make the rather sensational "apartheid is dead" statement in the United States...
Getting near John Paul was often a problem for the more than 35 photographers who took pictures for the special report. Picture Editor Arnold Drapkin and his staff arranged accreditation for photographers with the Secret Service, the Vatican and individual archdioceses along the Pope's route, negotiating for ladders and scaffolding in strategic spots and, in the final days, installing remote-control cameras in vantage points off limits to the photographers themselves. It was, says Drapkin, "undoubtedly the biggest picture effort of the year...
...worth it, according to Staff Photographer Neil Leifer, who followed the Pope in four U.S. cities and Ireland. John Paul's unpredictable and expressive gestures-reaching into a crowd, picking up a baby-would have been "inconceivable" for Pope Paul VI, notes Leifer, who covered that Pontiffs U.N. visit in 1965. The Polish Pope, says Leifer, "has visual charisma and all the right moves. He kisses the ground as soon as he lands. There's the first picture!" But like his note-taking colleagues on the assignment, Leifer was often thwarted by overprotective police, impenetrable crowds and uncooperative...
...delegates had ample cause to be gloomy. A forecast by the IMF staff said that the combination of higher OPEC oil prices and the U.S. recession will force the rest of the industrial world into a stagflation swamp next year. Average inflation in industrial countries will rise to about 8.7%, and growth will fall to a meager...
...Birds will throw star righthander Jim Palmer at Pittsburgh Tuesday, and go with Scott MacGregor if needed on Wednesday. The Pirates' staff is shaky--Blyleven is through for the series after today's outing, and Bruce Kison has not pitched well. Buc ace John Candelaria, despite an ailing back, may start the sixth game...