Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington Post, Columnist Tom Donnelly reported coming across The Watergate Cookbook, written, he said, by people "deep in the soup" and featuring recipes for "purée of scoundrel, hush-money puppies and tongue à la Martha." Donnelly was only kidding; there is no such cookbook - not yet. But Howard Mercer, an inventor, and Joe Sugarman, an advertising executive, have created a slick card game called " Watergate Scandal: a game of cover-up and deception for the whole family." The pious instructions read: "To win: nobody in the Watergate Scandal wins. There are just losers. Once the cards are dealt...
INDIA-PAKISTAN CONFLICT. Syndicated Columnist Jack Anderson published during December of 1971 some nearly verbatim reports of meetings of the Washington Special Action Group (WASAG) on the fighting in East Pakistan. He quoted WASAG Chairman Kissinger as saying that President Nixon wanted to "tilt" toward Pakistan. Administration officials were both furious and embarrassed that such secret discussions had become public knowledge. But neither the Indians nor their supporters in Congress were surprised by revelations of a pro-Pakistan bias in the White House...
...interview with Chicago Daily News Columnist Mike Royko, Agnew was unusually outspoken. He said that if he became President he could scarcely outperform Nixon in foreign affairs, but on the domestic scene, he had "some ideas." He faulted the Administration for abandoning various programs without devising better ones to replace them...
...Columnist Art Buchwald has a fascinating new theory about Last Tango in Paris: "It is really a simple, heartwarming film about two people trying to rent the same apartment in Paris...
William F. Buckley Jr., LL.D., columnist and magazine editor...