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...joined under an implied threat of being run out of Canada, where it has a big uranium-mining operation. But some Gulf letters and memorandums unearthed by investigators seem to indicate that the company was, at minimum, anxious not to be left out. One Gulf lawyer wrote a memo in June 1972 outlining the potential advantages of membership, and suggesting that if the cartel's activities ever came to light Gulf could blame everything on the Canadian government. Another Gulf officer took it on himself to pull together several scattered sets of cartel rules into a single code...
...memo released yesterday by Albert M. Sacks, dean of the Law School, said that Burger had "experienced a recurrence of a serious back condition" and entered a Virginia hospital yesterday morning for treatment, where he is expected to remain for at least a week...
Alfred Friendly, former managing editor of the Washington Post, issued a memo to his entire newspaper staff in July, 1958 in an effort to clear up misunderstandings about who could and who could not be quoted. Friendly wrote...
...block by writing poems in French. (Dabbling in lesser languages removes pressure to perform in mother tongue.) Tom Wolfe, to tally blocked on his first famous article, a story about customized cars for Esquire, wrote a really socko memorandum to his editor on the subject. The editor ran the memo as the article. Wolfe now writes all his articles as memos. (On the other hand he is at least three years late with his current book...
White House Aide Hamilton Jordan demonstrated concern early in the Administration about the problem of Jimmy Carter's isolation. According to Los Angeles Times Reporter Robert Shogan's new book Promises to Keep, Jordan, in a memo to Carter last March, noted that his advisers from down home tended to try to guess what he wanted to hear instead of giving him frank, sometimes critical analyses. Not much has changed over the months. Only in the last few days did Carter begin paying attention to House Speaker Tip O'Neill and to Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd...