Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Izzy Bleckman was driving the van and Larry Gianneschi was fussing with the coffeepot when they saw a man standing on a highway overpass with a homemade banner draped over the side. They called back to their boss, CBS News Correspondent Charles Kuralt, that they had spotted a potential story for his On the Road series. With the briefest glance at his watch and a map showing their route that day-a 200-mile round trip from Portland, Ore., up to the woods outside Onalaska, Wash.-Kuralt agreed to turn around and find out what the man was doing...
...ritual of "worm grunting," catching bait with the use of wooden stakes and truck springs. Some day, Kuralt vows, he will get around to a piece that Bleckman wants to do, about dogs that ride in the backs of pickup trucks. As it turned out, the man with the banner just missed being a story. He had painted the 10-ft. cloth to honor his wife's birthday, and waited to wave as she drove past in her pickup truck. She got there while Bleckman was positioning his camera. "One more minute," Bleckman moaned, "and we would have...
...campaign." That stinging reference was dropped by the final edition, after vote tallies came in, and Hart's "bandwagon" was redefined as being limited to New England. Like the networks, Broder had difficulty incorporating late results from caucus states. As a result, the Post's Page One banner headline read: HART WINS 3, MONDALE 2. Hart took a copy of the paper, crossed out 3, wrote in 6½, and tossed it to Press Secretary Kathy Bushkin, saying, "Show this to [Post Reporter Martin] Schram...
Crosby later became director of quality at ITT, and one day he got to put forth his ideas to Chairman Harold Geneen during an elevator ride. Geneen was intrigued and agreed to support an in-house "cultural revolution." Under the banner of slogans like "Make Certain" and "Buck a Day," Crosby created a system of quality managers throughout the company that has been adopted by other large corporations...
More important, though, voters should be watchful of the apparent willingness of Reagan and some Congressmen to sell their political souls to religious lobbies; with school prayer on hold, at least for the moment, these politicians may well be seeking to wave the banner of God in some other sector of official life...