Word: doorstep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tirelessly pursued "instant history." Once he decides a man is worth a book, Thomas never lets him forget it. Well before the Kennedy assassination, he encouraged Theodore Sorensen to write a book. "When Sorensen finally decided to leave the White House," he says, "I was sitting on his doorstep...
...TIME, Dec. 24, 1965). Digging just as hard as Karafin, Philadelphia Writers Gaeton Fonzi and Greg Walter began by investigating a racket involving fly-by-night companies that bought retail items on credit, unloaded them fast at discount prices, and then went into bankruptcy. The trail led to the doorstep of a 600-lb. operator named Sylvan Scolnick. Arrested, prosecuted and convicted, Scolnick started singing. Karafin, said Scolnick, was a good friend, so good, in fact, that he vouched for Scolnick's moral character and signed his application for a gun permit. Not only that, he also served...
...only 13 nations have announced plans to participate, and the President is naturally hopeful that the $156 million extravaganza on his back doorstep (70 miles from the ranch) will draw more Latin nations...
...from Memphis to Jackson last summer, the Courier distributed free copies along the route, received letters asking for reporters and subscriptions, and happily supplied both). Few people want their copies mailed; they prefer to pay a dime each time the six-page full-sized paper is delivered to their doorstep. The Courier buses papers out to dozens of local distributors--housewives, civil rights leaders, retired steelworkers--who mail back the paper's share of the money collected, as well as news tips and items for a short column of social notes...
...Doorstep. Not all the talent in the world, of course, can solve some of Lindsay's problems. Despite a variety of economy and efficiency measures, Lindsay faces another deficit threat next year, and he admits that local taxation has gone "almost to the point of no return." Lindsay believes that the city's agony of purse and soul begins at the ghettos' doorstep; while New York's operating budget has risen 150% in ten years, the cost of social-welfare services has gone up 222%. Lindsay hopes to relieve the mounting burden by changing the basic...