Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your vote favoring Kennedy over McCarthy came as a great shock to me. My background first. I am a white haired fifty year old establishment lady who has fought tooth and nail for what the young people were telling us. I even gave up buying saran wrap in the Walter Mitty hope of converting production of napalm at Dow Chemical to better things. I rode in a jeep to Freedom Square in October and spent two nights on a bus with little to eat and almost two days standing around and walking with little to eat and not much chance...
...political stories, each of our eleven U.S. bureaus reported on regional reaction to the McCarthy-Kennedy development. Washington Bureau Correspondent Lansing Lamont was with McCarthy all week, while Boston Bureau Chief Christopher Cory reported on the New Hampshire primary. Chicago Bureau Chief Loye Miller went to Minnesota to gather background material on McCarthy, and Correspondents Richard Saltonstall and John Stacks covered the story in Washington. Over on the Kennedy side of the coin were the Washington Bureau's Hugh Sidey, Neil MacNeil and Bonnie Angelo (who also filed on Mrs. McCarthy...
...accelerator, a large cobalt-60 source, or a generator that puts out 2,000,000 electron volts. To protect the patient from radiation sickness and to spare normal tissue, healthy parts of his body must be shielded. At Memorial Hospital, said Dr. Nobler, an X ray with a grid background is made of the body area involved. On this X ray the radiologists mark the vital organs, such as lungs, which must be shielded. A template is made, and then engineers cut out lead shields 21 inches thick to this pattern. The shields, placed in the head of the accelerator...
...Berkeley, Calif., a bishop and priests in white surplices and red stoles gathered around the altar for the ordination of a priest. Instead of the traditional ecclesiastical garb, the moustached young man in their midst wore a psychedelic chasuble festooned with yarn balls and tinkling bells. In the background, a group called Martha's Laundry blasted out rock settings of hymn tunes...
Center Editor John Cogley, who reported on religion for the New York Times, concentrates on making the magazine readable. This often entails editing writers of academic background, who, says Cogley, lack the "usual and necessary journalistic anxieties and deadline mentality." Center, nevertheless, boasts such skilled writers as Harry Ashmore, onetime editor of the Arkansas Gazette, who is now executive vice president of the Center; Military Critic Walter Millis, who has been examining proposed changes in the draft; Classicist Stringfellow Barr, who has tried to draw some lessons from ancient times to apply to the present-day U.S. (one of them...