Word: staffers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Running were Democrat J. J. ("Jake") Pickle, 49, a onetime Johnson congressional staffer and campaign aide, making his first try for office, and Republican James Dobbs, 38, a Goldwater enthusiast who resigned as announcer for a right-wing radio program sponsored by Texas Oilman H. L. Hunt to seek the seat for a second time. Last year Dobbs was the first Republican ever to run for the seat, ended up being clobbered by Incumbent Democrat Homer Thornberry, 42,000 to 25,000. This election came about because Thornberry, who had held the job since Johnson gave...
...Staffer. Then there are the men, as yet little known to the public, who are likely to become known as members of the President's personal staff. As Congressman, as Senator, and as Vice President, Johnson always worked his staffers to the limit, often cussed them in front of outsiders. Yet in the demands he made on them, many found rewards that kept them at their jobs...
...University of Georgia in Athens, 35 miles southeast, lets one stay in school while the other works at the paper fulltime. When a semester ends, the two novitiates trade places. In Arkansas, the Texarkana morning Gazette and evening News have tried another tack: hiring women. Today, every other editorial staffer on these jointly owned papers wears a skirt. The Portsmouth, N.H., Herald once body-snatched on a transatlantic scale by placing help-wanted ads in the British press. From 140 replies, the Herald got three new hands. But all moved on within a year...
...radically styled Avanti sports car, tooled up at a cost of about $25 million, is a failure. Though Egbert predicted that at least 10,000 a year would be sold, the nine-month total is only 2,083. "If the Avanti had made it," says a former Studebaker staffer, "Egbert would have been a genius...
...could work for the "foreign" press. The Times sent Cortesi to Geneva, Mexico City, and finally to Buenos Aires, where he won a Pulitzer Prize for his bold coverage of the repressive Perón regime. In 1946 he went back to Rome. Cortesi's successor: veteran Times Staffer Milton Bracker-who reopened the war-shuttered Rome bureau in 1944 and two years later handed it back to Arnaldo Cortesi...