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"He's a fantastic man," says Simmons's administrative vice president, Priscilla L. McKee. "When you sit in a meeting and you have a problem, he's a good listener. But when he's called on he can make an analysis better than anyone. Every college is looking for a...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Silent Partners | 6/6/1984 | See Source »

An attentive and compassionate listener, Pepper has constructed his book around interviews with former cancer patients at Memorial. These survivors offer considerable testimony of bad or even potentially fatal medical advice proffered by the physicians they saw first. Estelle Marsicano was scoffed at by her family doctor. "My liver is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Survivors | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

Standing in the wings, he was as nervous as cold water in a hot pan. Then Country-and-Western Veteran Roy Acuff introduced him as "a plain ole country boy from Illinois." And out onstage came Secretary of Agriculture John Block, 49, making his singing debut at the Grand Ole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 30, 1984 | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

The dialogues in a Harold Pinter play are pitched battles between speech and silence. The speaker marshals all the resources of colloquial language-wit, wheedling, anecdote, abuse-while the listener waits out his opponent and, often as not, wins the battle by withholding approval, by being as silent as God...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Genius, Menace and Chicanery | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

CONGRESSIONAL, statute requires the CIA "to keep the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives fully and currently informed of all intelligence activities..." But CIA chief William Casey and ranking Senator on the Intelligence Committee Barry Goldwater (D...

Author: By Jonathan S. Sapers, | Title: Playing Games | 4/21/1984 | See Source »

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