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There were also a lot of bicycles in 1968, but not in the numbers and models that descend on Central Park these Sundays: flotillas of gleaming ten-speed Peugeots, Atalas, Gitanes, Raleighs and Fujis. Cut. One curious cyclist is nearly clothes-lined by a Hausman staffer to prevent his vehicle from mowing down the entire Twyla Tharp dance company as it limbers up for a Hair number. Cut. And then there are the joggers...
...badly has the Carter-Meany relationship degenerated that Meany's rebuff was never in doubt. "George Meany has nothing but contempt for Carter," one union staffer confided before the meetings. "The way George sees it. Carter doesn't have any real sympathy for the labor movement." A more laconic labor strategist called the outcome of the meeting on wage restraint before it took place...
...independence and lack of political savvy of such aides has become a sore point to senior White House staffers. "One of the biggest mistakes we made during the transition was letting the Cabinet secretaries play such an independent role in naming their assistants," complained one White House aide. Said another: "We've got to find a way to bring the second-and third-level people on board this train." Several of the Cabinet officers grumbled privately at the request to evaluate their assistants. Said one Cabinet staffer: "This could be an opportunity for the secretaries to give poor grades...
...lobbying was going on. Except for a few full-page newspaper ads by Jewish organizations, however, much of that activity was characteristically invisible, the spontaneous reaction of many of the 5.8 million Jews in the U.S. "There has been a tremendous outpouring of mail," says one congressional staffer. "But no one has to tell concerned Jews to write to their Congressman. When they see an issue that is dangerous to Israel, they respond." Similarly, he notes, "you don't have to call up a Senator to tell him the Jews don't like the U.S. selling planes...
...slices thinner), Ocean Spray for cranberry juice and Amstar for Domino sugar. All signed consent decrees; Warner-Lambert was the first to ask the courts to rule that it did not have to take back its previous claims. Now that it has definitively lost, says a jubilant FTC staffer, "I think we will see more corrective ads in the future...