Word: staff
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...Yaqub-Khan, 56, a trim, ascetic retired lieutenant general in the Pakistan army and its former chief of staff. Familiar with battle scenes, he was twice captured while serving with the British Indian army in World War II-and escaped both times. He is a four-goal international polo player, and a formidable linguist, fluent in English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Urdu...
...speech, Nixon said jocularly: "We got a hell of an audience on August 9, 1974." To ensure that same hell of an audience in May, Frost met with his subject at San Clemente last week to iron out final details and digest the briefing books put together by his staff for the marathon taping sessions scheduled from March 23 to April 20. Under the terms of the $650,000-or-so deal, the ex-President has no control over content or editing and cannot see any of the questions in advance. "Nixon can, of course, refuse to answer questions," points...
There are no bay trees, green or otherwise, in Alaska, however, and last spring's Pulitzer gold-medal winner for public service, Anchorage's Daily News (TIME, May 17), is having a long dark winter. To reduce expenses, the paper has had to trim its editorial staff from 21 to twelve. Two of the three reporters whose Pulitzer-winning articles revealed the stranglehold that the Teamsters have gained on Alaskan labor have left for better jobs, and the morning Daily News' circulation of 11,600 has shrunk to 7,580. But Publisher Katherine Fanning, 49, who with...
...deal, however, had the opposite effect. In the last year before joining up with the Times, Fanning's paper lost $650,000. A year later the red ink was even redder: $750,000. Worse, according to Fanning's lawsuit, Times Publisher Robert B. Atwood and his staff have tried to kill the competition by scaring off potential Daily News advertisers and subscribers, mismanaging the paper's financial affairs and letting its distribution system go to pot Says Kay Fanning, who took over the paper on her husband's death in 1971: "Of the 22 other joint...
...Prez," as Jones is affectionately known by staff and students alike, is jovial and easygoing-given, as he says, to "talking up a breeze." A storyteller in the Southern tradition, he splashes his tales with emphatic "Oh, Lord's" and resounding laughs. As he drives around his 380-acre campus in a canvas-topped Oldsmobile 98, he waves to students and invites visits to his office. There, a small plaque on his desk proclaims LOVE YOUR ENEMIES; BLESS THEM THAT CURSE YOU. Says Jones: "I'm a front-row, 'amen' Baptist deacon...