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...saved from being fired by more prominent staffers, who argued ground rules on staging had never been defined. In New York, CBS officials would not comment beyond describing the affair as an "internal matter." But the network clearly intends to avoid further fakery of any kind. A recent memo from CBS News President Richard Salant admonished that "staging, or any false depiction, through editing or any other means, is intolerable." He promised severe disciplinary action against violators...
...indecisiveness. His staff finds the charge peculiar. They know Muskie as a tough, demanding boss with extraordinarily high standards that reflect an almost excessive decisiveness. On the draft-reform bill this year, for example, there were some 65 amendments in the Senate. On each one, Muskie demanded a staff memo. Adding to the burden, Muskie made a major speech on the bill that required six redrafts. He is a cool, cerebral and persistent plodder, insisting on thorough research, wary of hasty conclusions, suspicious of headline-grabbing pronouncements. Says George Mitchell, his deputy campaign director: "He's simply...
...Capo John Cammillieri. In his sharply tailored suits, pointed-toe shoes, dark glasses and pinkie ring, Cammillieri was an unlikely looking straw boss for an office building construction gang. But his effect on the work force was immediate and far-reaching. For $7.10 an hour, Cammillieri did with one memo what Bateson foremen had tried to do for two years: he got the laborers to work...
They also released government documents which, according to Minh's supporters, showed how the election was being rigged. The main item was a 17-page memo to province chiefs; among other things, it told how to fix ballot cards to enable Thieu partisans to vote twice and how to discourage Thieu opponents by finding "a scar"-Vietnamese parlance for a past crime or anything else that might make a man vulnerable to blackmail...
...uncertainty over the plane's future. The company has only 103 firm TriStar orders-at least 152 short of the number Lockheed Vice President Charles S. Wagner says the firm must sell to break even on the project. As Lockheed Chairman Dan Haughton said last week in a memo to employees: "We aren't out of the woods yet by a long shot...