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Reagan may make Feldstein temporary official chairman by using an obscure constitutional provision allowing appointments during a Senate recess, a CEA staffer said. But a White House spokesman refused to discuss that possibility yesterday, saying only "we hope that Professor Feldstein will be confirmed this afternoon...
...more than occasionally ignored. Things began to get better during the 1980-82 tenure of Martin Kent, one of some 20 editors who have moved through the revolving door since Founder William Wilkerson opened the paper on the site of his former haberdashery in 1930. Says a onetime staffer: "Until Kent came, they mostly took press releases and perhaps pencil-edited them a little and slapped them onto the front page. They would not even call to check items out." Kent departed in June after a power struggle with Managing Editor Cynthia Wilkerson, complicated by the repeated interventions...
...exchange for coverage in his column. The paper's recording-industry columnist, Dianne Bennett, a former Beverly Hills meter maid who is paid $ 100 or so a week, is known for using her Reporter platform to skewer her enemies, sometimes bending the facts to suit her case. Staffer Hank Grant routinely attributes items to "my studio spy Onda Lotalot" and "New York Spy Luce Lipp" in his daily column. He also wishes "happy birthday" in print to entertainment figures, as in the March 10 greeting to former Studio Executive Newton ("Red") Jacobs, a leader in civic causes. That salutation...
...addition, notes Helmut Sonnenfeldt, another former Kissinger aide, "he does not engage in jurisdictional disputes. Authority just flows his way." At a recent Cabinet meeting he praised Commerce Sec retary Malcolm Baldrige for trying to resolve a European trade problem. Says a National Security Council staffer: "Haig would have worried that Baldrige was treading on his turf...
Although the N.A.A.C.P. is committed to a registration drive aimed at adding 1.5 to a registration drive aimed at adding 1.5 million blacks to the 11 million now on electoral rolls, only one full-time staff member and a secretary have been assigned to the task. Similarly, only one staffer is involved full time with Operation Fair Share, a campaign of selective boycotts aimed at corporations that refuse to integrate their boards or commit themselves to hiring more blacks. The organization also has had trouble recruiting top-caliber staffers. Says Board Member Julian Bond: "Working for the N.A.A.C.P...