Word: memos
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...opposed the merger for the usual antitrust reasons, is prepared to accede to it now. One reason: after deciding to make his run for the U.S. Senate, former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy took one look at the railroad problem in New York, left behind at Justice a memo urging approval of the merger because "conditions have changed dramatically...
...Memo. The charge came about in a curious way. The committee was taking testimony about how the U.S. Post Office Department two years ago put a watch on the mail of an old Kennedy foe, New York Attorney Roy Cohn, then under federal indictment for perjury (he was later acquitted). A Cohn lawyer told the committee that in connection with that case he had subpoenaed the LIFE file on a 1963 story about Cohn. Somehow, in the midst of that file was a confidential memo written by LIFE'S then Washington bureau chief, reporting that he had received...
...theme of the New York World's Fair, displayed on everything from the memo pads of its officers to the Unisphere, is "Peace Through Understanding." But peace and understanding theoretically begin at home, and there has been precious little of either among the fair's top officials. Last week five of the nine Manhattan bankers in the fair's finance committee resigned, charging that they were kept ill-informed about the fair's finances and implying that the fair is in financial trouble...
...memo--which was prepared last January--Price urged that the new building be developed as a "common facility" with Littauer Center. "Each part will want, to some extent, to have a unique identity and special facilities," he explained yesterday...
...Wasserman works as if he were doing it all by himself. He averages 60 hours a week in the office. He is always available by phone to anyone-except possibly reporters. He limits phone calls to 30 seconds, will not read a memo of more than two paragraphs. He is never unfair but he keeps most of his subalterns jumping. And he hates nepotism. When one of his employees married his only daughter, Wasserman gave the girl away and simultaneously demanded, and got, the groom's resignation...