Word: third
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...senior White House staffers. "One of the biggest mistakes we made during the transition was letting the Cabinet secretaries play such an independent role in naming their assistants," complained one White House aide. Said another: "We've got to find a way to bring the second-and third-level people on board this train." Several of the Cabinet officers grumbled privately at the request to evaluate their assistants. Said one Cabinet staffer: "This could be an opportunity for the secretaries to give poor grades to the very people the White House pushed in here...
...when he walked into a Watergate penthouse and was instantly convinced he had encountered inflation face to face. Inflation was a handsome fellow in a neat blue shirt, a fine dark suit and wingtips. Inflation had a little bulge over the belt, some eye bags and was mixing his third vodka martini (Smirnoff, 5 to 1). He was savoring the aroma of ribs barbecuing in the kitchen. "By God, it was me!" cried Strauss. "And you," he added to anybody within shouting distance. "I paid $6 for those ribs, and that is a hell of a lot more than...
...Charles and other friends last winter at a Swiss chalet. She, however, insists they are only chums. In an interview with Woman's Own magazine she gave a rare close-up view of the bachelor Prince. Charles, she disclosed, makes his own dates (not, as some have said, through third parties). He may pick up the woman in his Aston Martin or invite her to meet him at one of the royal residences...
...command center for that role is Charles' desk in his suite at Buckingham Palace. There are suites for the Prince at Windsor, Balmoral, Sandringham and other castle-homes, and the new digs at Chevening House in Kent, still under renovation. Charles has both his lodgings and office in his third-floor palace apartment overlooking St. James's Park. A few years back, Designer David Hicks redecorated the suite, but Charles has added his own touches and a good bit of clutter. The bathroom is hung with favorite cartoons, the sitting room crammed with memorabilia from his journeys. There are books...
...largest private employer, Co-Op Denmark, which runs department stores and supermarkets (sales: $1.9 billion), has started a policy of freezing promotions of top managers after age 50 and decruiting them at 60. Already more than 40 store managers have moved down and taken pay cuts of one-third to one-half: Tage Nielsen, 56, now works as an office clerk; Edmond Glud, 64, switched to the mail department; Sigvald Bangsager, 62, cuts a fine figure as a security guard. Says he: "You have to know when your time is up, when you're burned out." Adds Poul Jensen...