Word: covered
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...learned the hard way during the riots of past summers, the newscasters made a concerted and largely commendable effort to prevent the fire next time from happening now. In Los Angeles, for example, where the 1965 outbreak in Watts was a case study for broadcasters in how not to cover a riot, KABC refrained from running any footage of riots on its local newscasts. Says News Director Baxter Ward: "I'll keep an inflammatory scene out no matter how newsworthy it is. I figure we can be newsmen the rest of the year, but we want to have something...
Romney's sudden obsolescence-together with that of at least three Romney campaign biographies-is only one instance of the perils of hard-cover handicapping. Until recently, writers and publishers had all but forgotten Hubert Humphrey, except for an anti-H.H.H. tract entitled The Rise and Fall of a Liberal. They had virtually overlooked Nelson Rockefeller and Richard Nixon. Bookmen had also underrated Eugene McCarthy, who perspicaciously published a collection of his own views last fall. But they hardly ignored Bobby Kennedy, who has been the subject of about one book a month in the past...
Economics, diplomacy, statecraft, teaching, autobiography, satire and book reviewing are areas on which John Kenneth Galbraith has imposed his imperious rationality (TIME cover, Feb. 16). The Triumph, his first novel, is one of his less successful impositions. Strictly speaking, it is not a novel at all; it is an awkward attempt to put a fictional frame around a critique of U.S. foreign policy, which Galbraith feels is based on an indiscriminate fear of Communism. His characters are hardly more than clothespins colored to represent bureaucratic types. His locale is Puerto Santos, a banana republic where a moderate liberal ousts...
...mere fact that WGBH wanted to cover a demonstration doesn't mean we'll say 'yes,' if we don't think it has anything to do with Harvard's educational function," Ford said...