Word: staffs
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Next to Nixon, no one fears more what might be revealed by the tapes than Republican Party officials. At least three potential G.O.P. candidates for President could be tarnished by the conversations. One is General Alexander Haig, who served as Nixon's last chief of staff and who resigned last week as commander of NATO (see following story). In a June 4, 1973, tape made public by the House Judiciary Committee, he apparently advised Nixon to plead forgetfulness to blunt the impact of a previously released tape on which Nixon approved paying for the silence of the Watergate burglars...
...matter what is on the tapes, Connally's staff members dismiss them as unimportant. Says aide Julian Read: "At a time when the barn is burning, do you want to stop and take the fireman's fingerprints? Hell...
Nothing so dramatic, but something quite unexpected. Kosner, 42, stepped onto the podium, announced tersely that he was leaving the magazine that day, thanked the staff and left the room to applause. The whole performance lasted perhaps two minutes. Then Graham took the podium and delivered another shock: Kosner's replacement would be Lester Bernstein, 58, a vice president for corporate communications at RCA who had left Newsweek in 1972 after being passed over for the editor's job. It was the fourth change in top editors at the magazine in the past ten years...
...managing editor. Before that he had spent five years as an NBC public affairs executive and ten years as a writer, correspondent and editor at TIME. At Newsweek he is expected to steady both the editorial product and declining office morale. In a chatty, upbeat memo to the staff, he promised "some changes in tone, emphasis and operating style." Given his age and Graham's habit of replacing executives unexpectedly, Bernstein may turn out to be a caretaker appointee-"like bringing Bob Lemon in to replace Billy Martin," in the words of one Newsweek hand. Says Bernstein: "I expect...
...other in the ring. This leads to the movie's nadir, a training camp sequence in which we are asked to believe that a competent, liberated woman of our time would passively accept living quarters in an open dormitory populated entirely by the fighter's all-male staff. Streisand is, if anything, less attractive when she goes all cute and kittenish than when she is being strident and pushy...