Word: dispatchable
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Everyone dreams all the time, say the authors, so the prudent citizen eager for a dispatch from the future will go back to bed, close his eyes and pay attention. It may be possible to rig the game; there seems to be no rule against trying to dream of nasturtiums ("an unusual sexual experience"), garbage ("future success") and buffaloes ("large profits are forecast"), while avoiding grasshoppers ("confusion and complexities ahead") and giraffes ("a warning not to meddle in other people's affairs...
...week's end that estimate seemed conservative. In addition to full serializations in the New York Times, Washington Post and St. Louis Post-Dispatch, one-shot Sunday supplements were scheduled in many papers, including the Los Angeles Times, the Louisville Courier-Journal and the combined edition of the Atlanta Constitution and Journal. The Portland Oregonian readied a 44-page supplement for sale this week (at $1 a copy). Contrary to expectation, papers that have supported the President seemed as eager to practice full disclosure as those that have attacked him. The Wall Street Journal showed the split that often...
...Exchequer, had warned that when Labor came to power there would be "howls of anguish from the rich" and that he would squeeze them "until the pips squeak." For another, shortly before Healey brought his first budget to the House of Commons in the traditional red leather dispatch box bearing the monogram VR (for Victoria Regina), it was announced that under Conservative leadership the nation had suffered the worst monthly trade deficit in its history -$1.02 billion in February...
...doing. If that was the point, it was well made. Houseman did not notice that the bogus release was typed rather than mimeographed, and he never checked the item with Kennedy's office. An embarrassed U.P.I, alerted its subscribers to kill the story 90 minutes after the first dispatch had sped over the wire...
Wind and Tigers. There is no censorship as such, but once in a great while a reporter's dispatch mysteriously disappears. The correspondents must live in the segregated foreign quarter and need special permission to travel more than 15 miles from the center of Peking. When one Briton tried to venture out of the city, the militiaman who stopped him warned: "There are strong winds, and tigers may eat you if you go too far." Foreigners are not allowed provincial newspapers, and interviews with knowledgeable Chinese are difficult in the best of times. So the newsmen rely...