Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...runs the pragmatic advice of the nation's newest and youngest sob sister. She is Angel Maria Cavaliere, age ten, a carpenter's daughter in Philadelphia who three times a week gives sage counsel to the prepuberty set in the pages of the Philadelphia Bulletin. In only three weeks, "Dear Angel" has drawn more than 1,000 letters from youngsters seeking wisdom on everything from schoolyard bullying to parental restriction...
...idea was Angel's alone. A self-confessed expert at dispensing advice ("There are 39 in my class, and I must have solved problems for all of them"), Angel wrote the Bulletin asking, "Please may I have a summer job? I know I could help people with their problems because I like people." Paul Murphy, assistant to the managing editor of the normally staid Bulletin, thought it was worth a try, and the "summer job" may turn into year-round employment. The salary of $50 a week is not bad by sub-teen standards, and Bulletin editors are even...
...socially conscious corporation, Polaroid is also, as Palmer puts it, "a choice target." In October 1970, a dozen black-militant employees tacked up posters on Polaroid bulletin boards accusing the company of supporting apartheid in South Africa by allowing its cameras and film to be used in internal passports and by paying much lower wages there to blacks than whites. The charges turned out to be embarrassingly accurate. Even though the Polaroid operation in South Africa is owned by an independent distributor rather than by the parent corporation, Land was deeply hurt by the employee protest. He decided...
...SUDDENNESS of the dismissal created a highly emotional atmosphere around Harvard as people reacted unfavorably to such an "un-Harvardian" action. Stories in the Harvard Bulletin and the New York Times claimed that Carroll had been victim of a heartless bureaucracy that was growing under the Bok Administration...
...Wire watchers in newsrooms from coast to coast got a jolt one night last week when Associated Press printers broke into a bulletin on Apollo 16's blast-off from the moon with: "Listen, my children, and you shall hear/ Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere . . ."The Longfellow classic then lapsed into some blue doggerel dealing with Revere's sexual prowess. It turned out that an A.P. technician in New York, using the hoary rhyme to test what he thought was an in-house circuit, had inadvertently cut into the agency's "A" wire, the conduit...