Word: cuttings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...California is a colossal put-on. When I was there, I was served New York-cut steak, Long Island duckling, Maryland turkey and Maine lobster. All the long-legged, blue-eyed California girls hailed from Kansas and Texas. I sampled native gefilte fish in the deli opposite the Clift and .-Ugh!-discovered it was made with saltwater fish. This is our future...
...Westfeldt decides the first "rundown," the order and length (down to the second) of the stories. An hour or so later, a couple of writers begin to rap out Huntley's copy, mostly from the A.P. wire. Brinkley generally writes his own. Westfeldt has final film cut and say; he doesn't touch Brinkley's prose, but he sometimes overrules David on the priority of items. New, updated copy sometimes is slipped to the anchor men during commercial breaks...
...Clean-Cut Victory. Many who proclaim fealty to the Administration are unreconstructed hawks who either do not realize or choose to ignore the fact that Nixon is determined to disengage from Viet Nam. In New Orleans, Randolph Dennis, chairman of Operation Speak Out, sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, exhorted listeners to "move on to some positive, two-fisted, basic patriotic Americanism" and to work for "a conclusive, clean-cut victory against the sworn enemies of freedom." Others desperately want out of Viet Nam but cannot abide the notion of admitting defeat...
...immediate establishment of an apprenticeship-training program, which painters could enter without receiving a cut in pay. Painters completing theprogram would receive pay comparable to that received by outside contracted painters...
...shame of Harvard freshman football. if one may call it that, is the lack of the common "cut." No one is cut from the squad at any time. The final decision to continue playing or not rests with the individual player. As a result only those who want to play will remain. In most cases these are the football-players, not the temporary stars...