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...campaign book. While feeding information to the Republicans, he was really trying to gather material for an "inside" book about internal friction in the G.O.P. camp. He sees no distinction between what he did and the ploy used by Joe McGinniss in 1968. McGinniss worked as a Republican campaign staffer while secretly doing research for The Selling of the President 1968, a tough and witty attack on Richard Nixon and some of his aides. "If I had brought it off," Freidin says ruefully, "everyone would be calling me a big hero...
...COLC did not tip its attitude at the public hearings. One staffer, though, expresses worry that "the ripple effects of a steel-price increase are far-reaching and long-lasting," deeply affecting every industry that uses the metal in its products. One certain effect would be to magnify a second round of auto-price raises that is sure to come after the carmakers sign new wage contracts. Consequently, the COLC may possibly hold up some of the requested steel boosts...
...based Sierra Club, which is the state's most successful conservation group. Although the club was not a party to the suit that has held up construction of the pipeline for four years, its aggressive attitude and legal success in southeastern Alaska have caused it, according to Sierra Staffer Jack Hession, "to catch the flak for everybody." Among its recent achievements: forcing logging companies to file environmental impact statements before they can cut trees in remote areas of the Tongass National Forest, delaying construction of several highways, and halting plans for a huge pulp and saw mill near Juneau...
...President. Indeed, one leading professor of constitutional law, Yale's Alexander M. Bickel, considered the proposition so dicey that he recommended that the committee seek legislation giving the courts jurisdiction in the case. Ervin rejected this course, however, because it would be time-consuming and, as one committee staffer put it, "tantamount to an impeachment proceeding against the President...
...When Sally moved to Manhattan, her colleagues at the Washington Post, where she had been a reporter for four years, gave her a going-away present in keeping with her new status: a full-size door marked with a huge gold star. One fellow staffer scribbled a tongue-in-cheek reference to Sally's rise to instant fame: "Write if you get work...