Word: staffers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intricate home-office details for the far-flung campaigners. "He was like a key supply-corps general who spent the war in the Pentagon," recalls a Kennedy aide. "You never heard about him on the outside. But we couldn't have won the war without him." Adds another staffer: "He was indefatigable-he was great...
...even Senators who murmur that Long "follows strange gods" do not question his ability. Admits one Republican Senator: "When he gets hold of something, he's a tiger with it." Long has a penetrating mind and. says one Senate staffer, is "one of the very few members left who can make a speech that will change some minds right on the floor...
...incentive to attend could be found in the experience of the Washington representative of a New York business firm. Having a lonely luncheon a few days ago in Washington's Paul Young's restaurant, a favorite New Frontier hangout, he was approached by a Democratic National Committee staffer. The staffer suggested that the businessman might enjoy paying $1,000 for a dinner ticket. Asked the businessman: "Why in the world would I want to do that?'' Well, there were several reasons. For one thing, all contributors would be invited to a big do at the White...
...openheartedly received as a true colleague'' by Soviet doctors. It was Davison, said the Russians, who was so preoccupied by the lamppost. The charcoal circle was a signal that information was ready to be picked up at 5-6 Pushkin Street by another embassy staffer, Richard Carl Jacob, 26, who, though only a secretary-archivist, was in reality, claimed Pravda, a graduate of a special U.S. spy school. The paper even carried "authentic"' photographs of the "spies at work...
...better newspaper. The Times has beefed up its Washington coverage and joined hands with the Washington Post in the organization of a news service. It has also added four fulltime political editors, two of them stolen from Hearst. Foreign coverage has grown from one staffer roaming Europe, to Times bureaus, either opened or opening, in Mexico City, Rio, Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong. The Times now keeps a man permanently at the U.N., liberates reportorial teams for long, hang-the-cost investigations. These and other improvements have added nearly $1,000,000 to the paper's editorial budget...