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...first hostile confrontation with a war-maker, an eminently polite debate between ex-dean of the faculty McGeorge Bundy and antiwar professors including Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, professor of History, while 35 picketers demonstrated outside: It saw a group of Harvard students, mostly Crimson editors, organize The Southern Courier, an Alabama weekly designed to provide objective, sympathetic coverage of the civil-rights movement that was reaching about 10,000 Alabama and Mississippi readers, mostly poor blacks, when it finally folded for lack of funds early in 1969. And the spring saw what may have been the feminist movement's first...
...into a borrowed Jeep, and drove north on Interstate 400 for some 30 miles. For the last few miles, he picked up an escort-one car carrying two men that drove ahead of him at a distance, another car with one occupant that followed. At an appointed sign, the courier placed both suitcases on the shoulder of the highway. Without waiting to watch the pickup, he turned and drove back to Atlanta...
...their stories. Even the L.A. Times ignored its own news service dispatch for a story based on wire service coverage. But a number of major papers across the country did run the blooper-with follow-up corrections-including the Chicago Sun-Times, Denver Post, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Louisville Courier-Journal, Boston Globe and New York Post. The New York Times's Tom Wicker used the misquotation in the lead of his Tuesday column. Rued Wicker: "It didn't occur to me that the Washington Post would be wrong." As for the Post, Managing Editor Howard Simons...
...years ago, TIME listed its choice of the ten best newspapers in the U.S. In alphabetical order, they were: the Baltimore Sun, Cleveland Press, Los Angeles Times, Louisville Courier-Journal, Milwaukee Journal, Minneapolis morning Tribune, New York Daily News, New York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the Washington Post. Reviewing the nation's major dailies today, TIME correspondents and editors found marked change; five of the 1964 selections have been replaced by other papers that have improved sharply...
Cain was jailed in 1969 on charges of conspiracy, concealment of evidence and acting as an accessory to a robbery. Paroled in 1971, he resumed his role as Giancana's right-hand man, serving both as international courier and scout for gambling operations and investments in corporations in Europe and elsewhere...