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Fisher apparently succeeded because the next FBI memo from Gleason noted that Buckley contacted him and said "he had changed his mind considerably about the matter and was now of the opinion that the articles appearing in The Harvard Crimson were vicious and insidious in addition to being journalistically poor." Buckley then wrote a letter, now part of an ever-expanding FBI file on The Crimson, to arrange a forum between the FBI and members of the Yale community to "outline to them the actual roll [sic] of the FBI in the state and community levels." Buckley offered himself...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: The Mr. Bill Show | 5/23/1980 | See Source »

Hutton, among others-is a packaged seminar called Power Writing. Sample exercises: write a thank-you letter or a memo with a "dynamic" and "relevant" opening; write a rejection on a business proposal with sympathy and understanding. One corrective exercise asks, "Did you find rewriting the cliches easy?" At $89.95 each, the firm has sold upwards of 10,000 Power Writing kits, each of which contains workbooks, a dictionary, a thesaurus and four audio cassettes. American Telephone and Telegraph has budgeted an estimated $2 million to provide a customized version of the Power Writing course for 20 Bell System offices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Righting of Writing | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

...encyclopedic knowledge of Soviet agents operating in the U.S. Harvey, contemptuous of striped-pants types, was the first, declares Martin, to identify Philby as a Soviet spy. The fact that Phil by traveled in the best circles did not mislead Harvey as it did others. In a memo digging into many dark corners of Philby's career, Harvey spelled out a pattern that led to the double agent's un masking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lives of Luger and Stiletto | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

Hawkes said he wrote a memo saying union bargainers either had to prepare their position on their own time or be docked, but he added he does not know whether any salaries were actually docked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local 195, City to Bring Charges to Labor Board | 5/13/1980 | See Source »

...memos Martin made of her conversations as she pursued the matter said that when she brought her suspicions to the attention of her superior, ABC Vice President Ronald Sunderland, he gave her the same explanation she had received from the Spelling-Goldberg employee. "They're [doing] the Robert Wagners out of their money," Martin's memo says Sunderland told her. He assured her that no one in the ABC hierarchy would blow the whistle on the arrangement: "Everyone's been told that needs to be told, and they've been told to pay it, and they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Bad Week for ABC | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

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