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...Secretary of State for Economic Affairs in 1973 and then served as president of the Export-Import Bank from 1974 to 1976, when he joined former Secretary of State William Rogers' New York law firm, Rogers & Wells. Casey barely knew Reagan when he was hired last February to straighten out the campaign organization...
...very low key, all very businesslike. But the man whose passion is organization relishes horseplay in his private moments. For example, he does a first-rate imitation of George Washington trying to talk and straighten his wooden dentures at the same time. It is an act that will play well on tense White House evenings...
Buckley had begun to look like the definitive Multiflex quarterback--mobile, intelligent under pressure, and strong-armed. Then, late in the fouth quarter, he fought off a pair of tacklers and was hit by a third. After a few minutes, his knee wouldn't straighten out. Knees being knees, by the next Saturday he had had two operations...
...problems after the manager had gone. When students voiced their complaints louder than ever last spring--by demanding refunds and even suing HDNS--Epps should have responded frankly to their queries, or should have instructed Smith to do so. Instead, Epps arranged for the loans, commissioning Smith to straighten out the delivery problems, handle refunds, and make sense out of book keeping that Epps says Olive left in "complete disorganization." In doing so, Epps acted as dean, insuring that students had newspaper delivery, but by ignoring HDNS's customer complaints he failed to perform responsibly as Olive's superior...
Moreover, Epps made only a half-hearted attempt to straighten out the problems. Although Olive had left for good by February, Epps and Smith did not balance the checkbook until well into April--more than a month after the first $4000 loan from Cambridge Trust had paid off part of a bad debt. If HDNS could afford that much in loans, it could have paid for an accountant to make sense out of its books. Or Epps could have made a serious attempt to find Olive--who was working in a restaurant in Faneuil Hall--and demanded restitution...