Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CASE OF LIBEL (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). An adaptation of Henry Denker's 1963 courtroom drama based on Louis Nizer's account (My Life in Court) of the case of Quentin Reynolds v. Westbrook Pegler. Starring Van Heflin, Lloyd Bridges, Angie Dickinson. Jose Ferrer and E. G. Marshall. Repeat...
...SECOND REBELLION, by James McCague. A vivid account of how at least 1,200 people died and blocks of Manhattan were burned in the 1863 antidraft riots by Irish immigrants who refused to fight in the Civil...
...error margin of as much as two or three percentage points is routinely assumed as a hazard of the pollster's trade-but that could hardly account for the startling discrepancies in last week's results. All three pollsters used basically the same techniques, although they often differ in their philosophies of interpretation. Gallup, for example, believes that "our job begins and ends with the reporting of facts." Harris argues that survey results are meaningful only if they are digested and interpreted. Each pollster has his own methods. Harris likes to reinterview some one he has already talked...
...Negroes. News of the world is almost exclusively colored black. The July issue covered the funeral of Bobby Kennedy by running photos of the prominent Negroes who attended: Cleveland Mayor Carl B. Stokes, Rafer Johnson, Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr., among others. The accompanying story was a perceptive account of Bobby's growth as a civil rights leader. In a previous issue, U.S. Senators got their pictures in the magazine only because they happen to frequent the Senate restaurant presided over by a Negro maitre d'hotel, Robert Parker Jr. Said the story: "Even for Senator Richard Russell...
...hero is not a simple misogynist, not a fully accredited human being with but one blank space in his account. Burgess's male characters, with the exception of the cynical betrayer, Rawcliffe, whose death is the most effective episide in the book, are as static and object-like as his women. The characters are exhibits of no more than equal rank with the strange locales and cunning twists of fate Burgess marshals for the reader's diversion...