Word: staffers
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Their mutual respect has grown ever since, and now Nixon has given Burns, 64, a job without peer or precedent on the White House staff. As "Counsellor to the President," he will be the only Nixon staffer with Cabinet rank, assuming broad responsibility for shaping the President's legislative program. Burns' mandate reaches into every cranny of domestic policy. He describes the job as an American equivalent of the European minister without portfolio: that is, a top-ranking government official liberated from the bureaucratic burdens of a specific departmental command...
...Osservatore's editorial staffers are Italian and, except for the priests, are considered career journalists. They are chosen mainly through personal contacts with the Vatican. L'Osservatore practices little beat reporting as such. If the occasion arises, such as a special papal appearance, a staffer may be sent to cover it. But generally L'Osservatore's commentaries are put together without benefit of firsthand reporting...
...Painting." Lorimer could be petty, as when he bought a story by a staffer but withheld the news from him for a few days because "he suffers so good." But he also commanded the grand manner. Recalls former Post Editor and Writer W. Thornton ("Pete") Martin: "He used to have a tailor come in and take his measurements right in the office. And he used to take a trip to Europe every year and come back loaded down with Oriental rugs, Chippendale furniture and tapestries. He'd have them all uncrated in the Post hallways for all the editors...
When a gawky young illustrator arrived at the Post one day bearing a large rectangle draped in black velvet, a staffer asked what he had. "It's uh-it's uh painting," he stammered. Indeed it was; the Post had found Norman Rockwell. Over the next 45 years, his hundreds of sentimental but sharply observed cover paintings-boy scouts and barbershops, April-fool jokes and baseball games-would come to represent the essence of the Post itself...
...interference with freedom of expression." Even under the system of self-censorship imposed on publications by the Soviets, it is surprising that so much irreverence got through. But the Reporter employed a rather special system for choosing its own censor, whose name happens to be Vladimir. As a fellow staffer explained the selection: "Well, at the meeting we held to discuss the matter, just at the moment when we were ready to make the decision, poor Vladimir had to go to the men's room. So while he was out of the room, we quickly appointed...