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Later, in a Senate office, states and regions were being divided, speaking schedules laid out, and many a 1960 staffer put to work. Pierre Salinger, looking little different from that campaign save for a more expansive manner and more expensive clothes, shuffled about roaring "Just like old times...
Last week stocky, square-jawed-and somewhat square-Fred Harris, at 37 the second youngest U.S. Senator (after Ted Kennedy), achieved national prominence as a result of his influential role within the President's Commission on Civil Disorders. Said a commission staffer: "He was a conscience to all of us and a prod to crystallizing a unifying view." That view, reflected in the commission's report, is not universally applauded-as Harris foresaw. To those who were queasy about castigating racism in American society, Harris snapped: "It strikes me that no one in this country is poor because...
...thoroughly covered by television is most perilous for the TV crews in the van. To the men in the field, network managing editors back in New York seem obsessed with "the wire-service syndrome" - they ask for coverage of every bit of action. Says one embittered TV staffer: "Editors are so afraid of missing one story that to protect their flanks they have been asking us to risk getting our tails shot...
...Christianity more responsive to modern social issues. Representatives of the "new churches" of Africa and Asia want the council to take a strong stand on such questions as economic "colonialism" and nuclear armaments. But the numerically potent Orthodox churches of Eastern Europe and the Near East, says one council staffer, "don't give a hoot about secular problems...
...functions. Already, 30 corporations have placed enough bulk orders for the $12.50 volume, which has no advertisements, to cover the party's $100,000 initial investment. State Chairman Monks predicts that with luck profits could reach $550,000. "If it's successful," says an envious Democratic Party staffer, "we'll be doing...