Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soon, Kuralt plans to head his bus for Hinckley, Ohio, where, like the swallows of Capistrano, a flock of buzzards returns every year, for what has become an annual Buzzard Festival. All this is hardly bulletin matter. Yet, if nothing else, the enthusiastic response of viewers to Kuralt's vignettes does prove, as he says, that "the definition of television news needs broadening...
Senter, a dissenter (get it?) from Defense Department policies who writes for the New Republic and The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists...
...speeches at eight U.S. military bases around the nation, managed to appear unruffled. Leaving the church, Lady Bird chirped a noncommittal "Wonderful choir." Smiling stiffly, the President shook hands with Lewis, mumbled "Thank you" and departed. Titillated by the event, Washington reporters in vented a slew of mock news bulletins and tacked them to a White House bulletin board. "President Johnson," said one, "announced late Sunday he has commissioned Artist Peter Hurd to paint a portrait of the Rev. C. P. Lewis." Hurd, of course, is the painter whose portrait of the President was rejected by L.B.J. as "the ugliest...
...Cover) It was 9:33 p.m. on a cold and foggy Saturday in Britain when the word first came. Much of the country was sprawled in stuffed chairs watching an old Doris Day movie (Midnight Lace) on the BBC. First there was a fragmentary bulletin that broke into the movie, then a delay in the scheduled 10:25 news while scriptwriters scram bled to get together details. In millions of living rooms up and down the length of Britain, people watched transfixed while a gay Latin American dance rhythm blared from the box, which went blank except for a slide...
...National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles, admitted that he is indeed in big trouble. Stung by the morning Inquirer's speculating on his finances, Wolman called a press conference at the unusual hour of 8:30 a.m., presumably to give the more friendly afternoon Bulletin his side of the story. He announced that he lost $15.5 million recently, that bankruptcy "could come at any minute," and that he needs about $7,000,000 in cash right now in order to stay solvent. He blamed his woes on a combination of "tight money" and his own "bad planning...