Tilting at windmills
Tilting at windmills The inside story of Zbig and the Passed-Up Pasta has just been revealed to me. When the National Security Adviser and his entourage were returning from Pakistan last winter,...
...The FAA thinks this is because a provision in its contract with P A TCO, the air traffic controllers' union, has been interpreted by an arbitrator to give air traffic controllers immunity from firing for any mistake they report...
...In a more serious vein, The London Sunday Times asked itself why someone could not have been found among the ranks of British executives...
...Accordingly, I have chosen to report and write the story-assuming that you agree-Mr...
...My last stand in the struggle to preserve some vestige of feminine grace is my proposal to outlaw the shoulder bag...
...He permits the boss to appear to be a wonderful fellow, serenely above the battle, while still making sure his real thoughts are injected into the meeting so that he can hear others' reactions to them...
...The posture 1S that of a blocking guard clearing the way for a running back...
...In the midst of a decline in real personal income, hotel and car rental rates are rising...
...Onassis," it began...
...The part of the government called the Environmental Protection Agency is arguing that the chemical dioxin has been proven so deadly that all pesticides containing it should be banned...
...It protects all officials who transferred to the newly created department from other federal agencies from being fired for a full year after the department's official start-up in May of this y e a r . . . . This is the year not to worry about who is elected president...
...Dear Mr...
...NASA has given out a $300,000 contract to study ridding ourselves of nuclear wastes by firing them into orbit around the sun via the space shuttle...
...At the same time, according to Joanne Omang of The Washington Post, two other parts of the government, the Veterans Administration and the Department of Defense, are arguing that the same evidence is inconclusive...
...Audrey Rowe, commissioner of social services, says she is going to solve these problems with a "computerized total child care tracking system...
...Even the most optimistic NASA figures say the shuttle will cost $40 million a shot—so this system, excluding any problems or costs like the shielding, will cost at least i$15 million a ton to get rid of waste...
...MacGregor became another Bill Walton when the British agreed to compensate Lazard Freres, his New York firm, $4 million for his services...
...E leven years ago, Thomas N. Bethell, now one of our editors, revealed in this magazine how Tony Boyle and his gang were using the United Mine Workers' ownership of The National Bank of Washington for their own benefit...
...There is an assumption that businessmen are bad guys and that nonprofit is morally superior to profit...
...In the prevailing climate it is all right for a lad to make a fortune as a pop star It is even acceptable, to minds attuned to scales of differentials, for senior managers to earn three or four times as much as the shop floor...
...The British environment is a peculiar one...
...The government paid 95 percent of the total cost and the system, except for a few weeks in 1979, has failed to function at all...
...But if it is clear, and any television viewer knows that it often is, it should resolve the dispute...
...When the DOE contracts to pay the freight, no one seems to care what a system costs or how well it works...
...After all, she has her career to think about...
...Indifferent federal courtrooms, the U.S...
...she had the absolute right to refuse being mated...
...Speaking of planes, the FAA reports that the number of errors made by air traffic controllers has risen steadily since 1976...
...and Mrs...
...It is the proposal to eliminate clear channel radio stations...
...Now the shoulder down, the face scowling, the mind tormented by torts and contracts...
...That's like saying the death was due to dying...
...Gone the soft, sensual, feline step...
...Louis...
...Recently a study was made of a sample of 150 files of children in the District's foster care program...
...Acouple of years ago I noted that Carter doesn't like to have people smarter than he is around him...
...instructors knew little about the materials and frequently couldn't answer questions...
...Here is its answer: "There is another way in which Mr...
...Until that climate is changed, the higher reaches of industry will be thinly populated with talent " We shouldn't be smug about this, for something very much like it has been happening in America...
...But what happens if the shuttle crashes, spreading plutonium to the four winds...
...Next will come a trade—say Tom Murphy of General Motors for Harry Grey of United Technologies and a financial officer to be named later...
...Invariably, the thing that sets them apart from badly designed, disfunctional and overpriced installations is that the people who will end up living with the solar system have paid a hefty share of its cost...
...Among the latter was this one from The New York Times: Teamster Aide Found Guilty of Stealing . $1 MiJlion from 2 Union Funds While the headline might have been unsurprising, the story itself would have demonstrated the advances that had been made in the theories of criminal defense while you were away...
...It might push a six-ton payload to escape velocity, but since there would have to be at least one pound of container for one pound of waste, you'd rid yourself of only about three tons per shot...
...None of this tends to encourage the kind of entrepreneurship we need . . . . — Charles Peters...
...My source also confirmed another observation of mine—one that I had never reported because I had seen it only once in an off-the-record situation: that in White House meetings, Jody Powell often speaks for Jimmy Carter's mean, petty, and defensive side...
...Most of the bills are charged to expense accounts, and most of them are eventually deducted from taxes, meaning that when you see those people in luxurious cars whizzing up to those tony hotels and wonder who is l?aying for it, the answer IS you...
...But properly large rewards, let alone a degree df respect or admiration, for adventurous industrial leadership appear altogether offensive...
...The actual performance of the government would differ little under Carter, Kennedy, Reagan, or Anderson...
...Silverstein concludes: "There have been many excellent solar projects paid for in part with public funds...
...By the way, did you know that, according to The Wall Street Journal, three air traffic controllers who were caught sleeping on duty got off with letters of reprimand...
...There was one condition: No one was to tell...
...Speaking of sports, my friend Julian Scheer points out that big business may be becoming like the big leagues...
...You probably thought we were exaggerating last month when we suggested that if President Carter loses in November an incoming president might be barred under a recent Supreme Court ruling from removing highranking officials like Zbigniew Brzezinski...
...Did you realize that over nine million non-Jews died under the Nazis...
...That story and others that followed it helped get rid of Boyle and bring reform to the UMW...
...Defense attorneys claimed that their client had not stolen the $1 million but had merely taken it as "advance salary...
...Or assume the shuttle works to perfection...
...The reason is that most of what the government does is determined by the bureaucrats, the courts, and the lobbies...
...I hope the people who hand out the $20 billion provided by the energy development bill will read the article on prizes in this issue...
...Our culture—at least its liberal branch—tends to characterize someone who goes into an urban planning consultantship as idealistic, while classifying the person who decides to be a building contractor as comparatively base...
...These objects tend to make women tilt forward, and, depending on which shoulder supports the the left...
...The head of the Center told Silverstein that "we certainly would not have agreed to the project if we had to pay for it ourselves...
...Tilting at windmills The inside story of Zbig and the Passed-Up Pasta has just been revealed to me...
...Not long ago, I mentioned that observation to someone in a position to know and he said it is true not only of Carter but of Jordan and of people on down the line, so that by the time you approach the bottom, there are an awful lot of not very bright people on the White House staff...
...They may be outraged by what the National Zoo has done to Ling-Ling, the panda...
...Pete Rozelle's argument against use of instant replays to check disputed decisions of the officials during NFL games is that hundreds of cameras would be needed to cover every angle of every, play...
...Osborne Elliott tells of a letter he wrote while he was editor of Newsweek, a letter that suggests the unconscious snobbery that is so common among journalists...
...perhaps she doesn't want to be a mother...
...Who else will talk to you about something other than law school...
...citizen...
...It is my understanding that Prince Radziwill has informed you in general terms of Newsweek's desire to publish a long, thoughtful article on the remarkable new life that you have made together, and the important role which you, as a couple, play on the current world scene...
...It is warm towards the pedestrian achievements of the bureaucrat and the professional, with their security of tenure and their absence of r i s k . . .. Where it is strangely uneasy is with the highflying manager, those people who combine leadership with imagination and flair to run the large businesses that provide an increasing proportion of our jobs and our national wealth...
...Elsewhere in his book, Elliott again reveals his fascination with de Borchgrave's social credentials by referring to "our elegant and energetic foreign editor, Arnaud de Borchgrave- who had given up his Belgian title to become an American citizen," and adding in a footnote: "His full name and title: Arnaud Paul Charles Marie Philippe, Comte de Borchgrave d'Altena, Comte du Saint Empire, Baron d'Elderen, Seigneur de Vobelingen de Marlinne, et d'autres lieux...
...The Washington Post's obituary section recently attributed a death to "cardiorespiratory arrest...
...Arnaud de Borchgrave, a senior editor of Newsweek in whom I place implicit trust...
...MacGregor is instructive...
...It may not be cjear, in which case it should be ignored...
...Ordinarily I like to think of myself as supporting reform, but there is one currently sponsored by the FCC that I must oppose...
...Many bosses have this kind of assistant...
...But now, we read once more in The Baltimore Sun that the current president of the UMW, Sam Church, Jr., is playing the same old game with the bank...
...If you had emerged on May 28 after having been suspended in a time capsule for the last 20 years or so, some headlines would have astonished you...
...One city employee said his instructor was employed at Woodward and Lothrop [a local department store] only the week before—demonstrating a machine that cut, minced, and mashed potatoes...
...There was a story in Time about how this would solve all our problems...
...In his new book, The Wizard of Oz...
...One reason American business is in such bad shape is that it's becoming increasingly like the government...
...It won't be something they accomplish unless it can happen soon, so they tend to ignore policies and programs that promise payoff only in the longterm, even though that payoff-say from a much better product or a much more efficient plantmight be far more important than anything they can hope to achieve within their time in office...
...Others would not...
...This year zoo officials tried artificial insemination, prompting the following straight-from-the-shoulderbag missive to The Washington Post: ''The rights of this bear have been violated...
...Here's another episode from that continuing farce known as the government of the District of Columbia...
...They hold office for just a few years, so that, like the general and the cabinet member, who also serve short terms, their interest is in short-term results...
...Or, if you're a baseball fan, as my friend Curtis Gans points out, you could always pick up the Cardinals on KMOX from St...
...If you don't believe us, look up 20 U.S...
...de Borchgrave, as you may know, is a former Royal Navy officer who renounced a Belgian title in order to become a U.S...
...Take Ian MacGregor, the new head of British Steel...
...Switzerland has come up with an idea I hope will be adopted by American airports: charging higher landing fees for older, noisier planes to encourage airlines to phase them out...
...According to another story in The Washington Star, "employees were taught to use forms that were wrong and out-dated...
...In case you aren't up on the latest panda news, LingLing and her male companion, Hsing-Hsing, h~ve failed to produce offspnng...
...It seems that a gala feast had been arranged at one of Rome's better restaurants, to which the entire party, press included, was invited...
...It is my conviction that older women will be increasingly prized...
...government is offering some curiously different arguments...
...I also hope they'll take a look at an article by Michael Silverstein in the May 27 issue of the Boston Herald American: It describes a solar system built in 1977 for the Christian Herter Center in Boston...
...There is a cluster of reasons for this, an unsavory brew of bias, resentment, and class...
...And the result is that delight has disappeared from our sidewalks...
...But we are not exaggerating when we tell you that neither Reagan nor Anderson, if elected, will be able to remove many of the political appointees in the Department of Education, at least not for almost four months after he takes office...
...Until you change that fact, changing the identity of the occupant of the White House is not going to change very much...
...Or maybe they aren't scowling about law school...
...He is, after all, a Scot who has flourished mightily in America...
...According to The Washington Star, investigators found evidence of 30 cases of double payments for a single child, and—much worse—no indication in several files that the Department of Human Services has tried to find out if the child was alive or well...
...Top corporate executives are like generals and cabinet members...
...According to "The Other Holocaust," a study sponsored by the Novak Report, they included 600,000 gypsies, 2,400,000 Poles, and over 3,000,000 Ukrainians...
...But why can't the officials check what the present cameras show...
...If you have ever lived in rural America, you know the night with faraway places like New Orleans...
...He has made a career there which he could not have made at home...
...We hope she doesn't use the same training program that taught city employees how to run the District's computerized financial management program...
...But Bernard Gwertzman of The New York Times refused to sign the non-disclosure pact, and, a few hours later, Schecter announced that the stopover had been cancelednothing to do with Gwertzman, of course, just a change in plans...
...On some occasions, I am told, Gerald Rafshoon plays the same role, but is a bit more obvious about it than Powell...
...Code, 3502(a...
...When the National Security Adviser and his entourage were returning from Pakistan last winter, Jerrold Schecter, then Brzezinski's press secretary, announced a surprise stopover in Rome...
Vol. 12 • July 1980 • No. 5
