Word: staffers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Visser 't Hooft we lose a God-given architect," one council staffer commented, "and in Blake we get an energetic manager." Blake's acceptance speech suggested that he will apply his energy -he seems bountifully springy at 59 -toward keeping the council strong and influential. "I believe the World Council of Churches can continue to grow in usefulness in the coming years," he said. "But I know, too, that it can be passed...
...truth is that joining the Peace Corps no longer has quite the glamor it once had-or seemed to have. As Samuel Babbitt, a former Peace Corps staffer and now assistant dean of the Yale Graduate School, points out, the Corps no longer holds for potential volunteers the "tremendous emotional response keyed off by the hero worship of President Kennedy...
Died. William Howland Taylor, 64, managing editor from 1953 to 1963 of Yachting, one of the biggest (circ.: 110,000) and best of the boating magazines, a onetime New York Herald Tribune staffer, who caused a journalistic sensation in 1935 when he became the first sportswriter to win a Pulitzer Prize, for his expert coverage of the America's Cup races between the U.S. and Britain; of a heart attack; in Port Washington...
...they give equal space to varying shades of opinion. The editorial pages not only support Democratic Senator Carl Hayden as well as Republican Senator Paul Fannin; they also balance liberal columnists, such as Walter Lippmann, against conservatives, such as William Buckley. Morale was once so low that innumerable staffers quit in disgust, and many were fired. Now, Pulliam runs a happy shop. "We are all Pulliam's babies," says one veteran staffer, actually brushing away a tear...
...years, Publisher George C. Kirstein had been shelling out his own money to keep the liberal weekly Nation alive. As a staffer put it, "It was time for a new charity." Last week James J. Storrow Jr., 49, a Bostonian who has made a small fortune from film and food companies, took over the burden from Kirstein. "The posture of a dissenter is not a profitable one," the new publisher conceded. "One does not grow rich by shooting sacred cows...