Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pulitzer prizewinner it is today. Roberts, who wrote for The Post from the 1930s until his retirement in 1971, wrote The Washington Post as that paper's official centennial history. He has masterfully avoided the dullness that marks many commissioned histories, and his book is a fascinating, straightforward account of how The Post watched America grow during the last century...
...Interior Albert B. Fall, and accepted in the Teapot Dome scandal. From then on The Post went downhill, and McLean went bankrupt. The paper was sold at auction in 1933--and when none of its reporters even bothered to cover the sale, The Post ran an Associated Press account the next...
...human interest" newspaper account of her plight brings other characters scur rying. An aging writer (Larkin Ford) thinks the governess's story might make a good plot for his next novel. Her ex-fiance (Lucien Zabielski) throws himself at her feet in the belief that she tried to commit suicide out of love for him. Her former employer (Gordon Gould), the fa ther of the dead child, turns out to have been her adulterous lover. Yet, in seek ing the truth each character continues to live out a lie. Why? The governess offers an answer in a gently despairing...
...there are those who think the teachers and the teachers' union account for a big chunk of Medford's problems. Faculty salaries, which comprise 88% of the $4.4 million annual budget, are good. Yet the militant Massachusettes Teachers Association staged a 15-month slowdown at Medford between September 1975 and November 1976. Teachers refused to work with students a minute past their scheduled 7:45 am. to 2:15 p.m. day as a protest against what they felt were low salaries, large class size and insufficient job security In the end, they won their salary demands. A tenured teacher with...
Daniel P. Sheehan, chief counsel for the Silkwood case, said last night that the Silkwood family is suing Kerr-McGee officials for failing to account for all of the company's stored plutonium, for violating health and standard rules, and for violating Silkwood's civil and union liberties...