Word: staffers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russian government mouthpiece, Izvestia, announced last week that British Journalist and longtime Foreign Office Staffer H.A.R. ("Kim") Philby, 51, the famed Third Man in the Burgess-Maclean spy case, had turned up in Moscow, where he will probably spend the rest of his wretched life. Philby vanished last January from Beirut, where he had been a correspondent for London's Economist and Observer. Presumably he had been sent to the Middle East as a British agent, but had actually been a double agent for the Russians as well...
...Kentucky State College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Minnesota, he was dean of the Atlanta University School of Social Work when selected for his Urban League post. As soon as he assumed Urban League leadership, he stepped up the organization's pace. A veteran staffer protested: "We don't work this fast." Replied Young: "From now on, we will. We've got to, or we'll be left behind...
Patently Offensive. The first to take a fall was aggressive, Brooklyn-born Ralph Ginzburg, 33, a onetime Esquire staffer with a sharp eye for a salable commodity that is spelled sex. In 1958 he published An Unhurried View of Erotica, a sort of bibliography of banned books, and sold 275,000 copies. Last year he began publishing Eros, a quarterly "devoted to the joy of love." At $10 a copy, Eros offers little more than what can be picked up by a determined voyeur with scissors and a library card-a reworking of Lysistrata, ribald pieces by De Maupassant...
...Bobby's Administration critics note that he recently accompanied Defense Secretary Robert McNamara on a visit to the office of Arkansas' Democratic Senator John McClellan, chairman of a committee investigating McNamara's controversial contract for the TFX all-purpose fighter aircraft. Says one angered White House staffer of Bobby: "He went in to make a deal with McClellan-who has never given us a vote on anything...
...January, he got his current cubbyhole office at the National Democratic Committee headquarters in Washington. He has no title ("I'm just helping out''), but it is likely that Steve Smith will become Kennedy's presidential campaign manager next year. As a White House staffer says, "Steve is the obvious man for the job, because the Kennedys are always going to have one of the family in charge rather than an outsider. That's just the way they...