Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fairbank colored his account with anecdotes, saying, "I offer these sidelights which are irrelevant but interesting...
...issue of Wednesday, May 4th, The Boston Globe printed a front-page account of Professor John K. Fairbank's valedictory lecture in History 1711. Since the Globe story impugned both my competence as a slide-projector operator and my loyalty to Chairman Fairbank--and since I am told that some members of the Harvard community read the Globe--I would be grateful to the Crimson for printing my heartfelt rebuttal...
...used for fuel. Imagine my consternation when, several slides later, there appeared on the screen a precise duplicate of the sheepdung vista. Fairbank once again patiently explained the significance of the mounds, but added to the audience of 300, "I am frankly at a loss as to how to account for Mr. Thomson's infatuation with sheep dung." I was, you see, the innocent victim of one of Chairman Fairbank's notorious practical jokes...
...screens, as the ex-President made only the rarest forays from San Clemente. This week he is back on the screens of America, in the first of four long-awaited interviews with British TV Personality David Frost. In our cover story we give not only a behind-the-scenes account of how the shows were put together, but also a preview of the programs, especially the one dealing with Watergate...
...when the New York Times strongly suggested in a front-page story by James Wooten that the President was closing his mind and not listening to dissent, there was a minor explosion from Press Secretary Jody Powell. For 20 minutes he lectured the world about the inaccuracies of the account. It sounded like somebody playing old White House tapes. John Kennedy blew up at the New York Herald Tribune, and canceled all 22 White House subscriptions to the newspaper They used to keep the bad clips from Ike to avoid eruptions of his barracks temper. L.B.J. thought the press...