Word: coverers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were a little disappointed last night. Only half a dozen sports writers turned up for the first night of the CRIMSON's competition. Of course George Wallace was a big counter-draw on the Common, but tonight there can be no excuse. A chance to cover one of Harvard's undefeated varsity fall sports. A chance to visit the Boston Garden, all expenses paid. Many chances...
...there is so much more that is bad: the hastily-done "End of the World" cover story, the Mad-magazine style letters to the editor, the tiresome use of such self-contained witticisms as "It all began in the beginning...
...booty offered it by the Olympic Games. Twice in the space of 18 months Diaz has ordered similar massacres of unarmed civilians--in the state of Guerrero last summer and at the University of Hermosillo a few months before. The Olympics must not be allowed to serve as a cover for Diaz plans for silencing students with genuine grievances...
Reporters who went to Wallace headquarters yesterday afternoon to get credentials to cover the visit, encountered strict security precautions. Wallace officials required a formal letter from each newsman's employer including such information as the reporter's social security number and date of birth. Arthur Dees, a Wallace aide, said that the Secret Service had requested the measures, but a Secret Service spokesman in Boston later denied that the Secret Service had been responsible for the precautions...
Since that time, Fortas has been called upon to defend Johnson's former secretary, Bobby Baker, and to cover up for Presidential aide Walter Jenkins when he was arrested in Washington on a morals charge. Fortas's wife handles the Johnson family's tax accounts...