Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even now a daily average is about five miles of corridor pounding." Reporter Steele, a Nieman fellow and one of the Capitol's seasoned wire-service reporters, came to TIME during the last session of Congress after a nine-year career of covering the Hill for the United Press. Shortly after he came to TIME, Steele grew used to a question from wire-service friends in the press gallery: "Now that you have a weekly deadline, have you been able to slow down?" He found himself, says Steele, forced to answer: "I'm just beginning...
Between the Senate Office Building and the Old House Office Building a reporter can take the pulse of Wyoming, check the price of Texas cattle, learn what is troubling Wisconsin's Menominee Indians, get background on Mississippi politics-all by spending enough time with the right people on Capitol Hill...
Quick were newsmen to look at the record. The record: at a press conference on Aug. 5, 1948 (the. day Alger Hiss swore to the Un-American Activities Committee that he had never been a Communist), Truman was asked: "Mr. President, do you think the Capitol Hill spy hearings are a good thing, or do you think they are a red herring to divert attention from the anti-inflation program?" Mr. Truman's reply: the hearings are a red herring. Then & there he made an exception to the rule banning direct quotes from presidential press conferences. Said Mr. Truman...
...grade school) live in a $41,000 home in Washington's Spring Valley. Their two exuberant daughters, "Tricia," 7, and Julie, 5, wake Nixon every morning at 7:15. From then until after breakfast is his only time to play with them. At 8 he leaves for the Capitol and a full day of meetings, handshaking, appointments and phone calls...
Andy Griffith has moved to Manhattan, is planning to investigate subways, automats, tipping, etc. Backing him up is Capitol Records Inc., which has signed Griffith to an unusual contract: Capitol will pay him a straight weekly salary ("over $100") instead of the usual percentage of sales, will also manage his career. Probably nothing can be done about...