Word: documental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jauntily holding the 350-page document aloft for reporters to see, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller last week prepared to deliver to the White House his commission's report on the alleged improprieties and machinations of the CIA. "We've done a good job, I think," said Rockefeller. "There's been no stone unturned, there's no punches pulled." Then the Vice President gave a brief synopsis of the report on the agency, which his eight-man panel had been preparing for the past five months: "There are things that have been done that are in contradiction...
Last week New York's suspense story reached the melodrama stage as Mayor Abraham Beame went before TV cameras to unveil a "crisis" budget of $11.9 billion for fiscal 1976. A patchwork document hurriedly reproduced on copying machines by 150 clerks who worked through the night, the budget calls for dismissals of 37,315 city employees, or one-fourth of the total, including 12.5% of the police department, 2,304 firemen, 8,941 school employees and 2,882 sanitation men. That would come on top of 35,082 job eliminations planned under Beame's previous "austerity" budget...
...committee seemed willing to forget the past-the man could, after all, change in the job-until the environmentalists found a serious flaw in Hathaway's case. His backers had widely distributed to Congress and the press a document listing the Governor's environmental accomplishments back home. Embarrassingly, of 23 such "achievements," the private Environmental Defense Fund discovered that most had either been forced on Wyoming by the Federal Government or were actually designed to weaken existing laws. Supporters of Hathaway also claimed that 49 Governors backed his nomination; under scrutiny, only 35 such endorsements turned...
...government exonerated him of all charges. It was only at the insistence of Pope Paul VI and the urging of President Nixon, who both wanted to improve East-West relations, that Mindszenty agreed to go. Even then, according to his own account, he refused to accept a church document specifying that he would make no statements to disturb détente...
...earned the right to do so. Her descriptions of the emotional and physiological effects of hemophilia on exhausted parents, as well as children, are heartrending. Its portrait of Bobby Massie's enduring courage and the decency and devotion of those who helped him makes Journey a remarkable human document. Beyond that, the Massies' analysis of how the disease is handled and mishandled by American medicine is a model of reportorial precision and reformist zeal...