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...know more about the workings of the Federal government than any living human being," he said. Richardson has held a variety of Cabinet-level positions, including Secretaryships of Defense, Commerce, and Health, Education and Welfare, and a stint as Attorney General...
...child of a New England industrialist, Darman earned his B. A. and a master's degree in business administration from Harvard and entered Government during the Nixon years under the tutelage of his fellow Brahmin, Elliot Richardson. Darman's various jobs in five Cabinet departments included a stint at Commerce, where he impressed Baker, then an Assistant Secretary, with his ability to analyze vast tangles of information. Baker chose Darman in 1981 as his assistant, says Press Spokesman Larry Speakes, because the Chief of Staff "regards Dick as brighter than himself or the rest of us put together...
...League graduates, blessed by a heartening amnesia about the seige mentality which surrounds exams, the 15 pounds they gained from freshman angst, and the sheer impossibility of finding good help in university towns, have an otherwise-baffling tendency to remember their college stint as the best years of their lives. Given the smartening-up students undergo as they are railroaded into their first "real" jobs, however, their university years are rarely their best-dressed. But what collegians lack in baroque splendor, they more than make up for with a plethora of youth and freshness that the most jaded New York...
...Pajama Game produced her first big break on Broadway 30 years ago, but Shirley MacLaine, 49, gave up her theater career when Hollywood beckoned. This April, however, she will make a rare appearance on the boards when she returns to her song-and-dance roots in a five-week stint at Manhattan's Gershwin Theater. The pocket-size review will feature four back-up dancers and an original score by Marvin Hamlisch (A Chorus Line, They're Playing Our Song). Says MacLaine: "I'll keep dancing and singing until my legs get as low as my notes...
...Neither Harvard nor MIT turn out computer scientists with immediately marketable skills" agrees Peter Elias, visiting professor of Computer Science Elias served a two-year stint as acting associate chairman of the Computer Science sub-department at MIT before taking his sabbatical here this year...