Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Newspapers around the country credited Cronkite with clearing the way for a meeting. Only television, print journalists conceded, could telescope time and distance to put the pair in contact so dramatically. In praising "Cronkite diplomacy," New York Times Columnist William Safire hyperbolically insisted that "it took Walter Cronkite of CBS, placing an electronic hand on the backs of Israel and Egypt, to bring them together." But did he? Examined closely, Cronkite's big score was largely a triumph of personality and packaging and partly a matter of luck...
...columnist for a small weekly newspaper, I have found that contemplating a troublesome article while taking a shower helps. I may not come up with the answer, but at least I'm clean...
...York City. He ordered Aide Jack Watson Jr. to devise a salvage plan for the 3-sq.-mi. area, where about 400,000 people now live (compared with about 530,000 in 1970). Last week Watson got some unsolicited but worthwhile advice from I.D. Robbins, a part-time columnist for the New York Daily News and reform-minded real estate developer...
...encompasses barely 4½ acres.) Some of their owners, and professional oenologists, point out that the soil and microclimate in, say, parts of Massachusetts and Michigan are in many ways closer to the great winegrowing regions of Europe than are overheated California's. Writes Anthony Spinazzola, a wine columnist for the Boston Globe: "The greatest wine has always been made where the vine is at its extreme climatically, when the grape is right on the edge of its endurance...
...being a Boston policeman. A well-heeled Cambridge architect came with several friends just looking for a good party. And a Paul Rever look-alioke claimed he owned a bar in Baltimore's equivalent to Boston's Combat Zone. Martin Slobodkin '41, premier Boston socialite, and Boston Globe gossip columnist Bill Fripp served as judges for several costume contests...