Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fascinating and exhilarating . . . Everywhere, you see the strong foundations for a better future being boldly, laboriously, intelligently laid. Whether in agriculture or industry, you find eye-popping achievements." What hath God wrought? The words are those of none other than Columnist Joseph Alsop, talking about China. A patrician conservative who long described the Peking regime as though it were directly ruled by Satan, Alsop recently toured the old battlefields, where he had served with the Chinese Nationalists during World War II. He found himself hugely impressed by the industrial growth and disciplined spirit, and he took such copious notes...
Angry Mayor. The full-time editorial staff of 35 is large for a paper of its circulation, and unusually literate. A number of the writers have published books and two-Columnist Hal Borland and Cultural Editor Milton Bass-have also done screenplays...
Conservative Columnist William F. Buckley: "Let's get it straight: Richard Nixon's resumption of the bombing is the logical, not the illogical, the honorable not the dishonorable, consequence of the breakdown of the negotiations in Paris as the result of North Vietnamese Mickey Mouse...
...wasn't suggesting for a minute that the law be changed, but Bess Myerson, onetime Miss America and now New York City Commissioner of Consumer Affairs, did sound a bit wistful as she told a Daily News columnist how the medieval French used to keep merchants honest. A royal edict of 1481 held that "anyone who sells butter that contains stones or other things to add to the weight will be put into our pillory; then said butter will be placed on his head until entirely melted by the sun. Dogs may lick him and people offend him with...
...pictures: Reports from Washington last month said Foreign Affairs Advisor Henry Kissinger '50 would be a 8100 extra in the film version of The Exorcist. Other extras have included John Carter Brown '56, director of the National Gallery of Art, and his wife Connie. According to Washington columnist Maxine Cheshire, the Browns waited four hours in a Parked Rolls Royce before stepping out for a 30-second sequence showing guests arriving at a party...