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...House " (Addison-Wesley; $12.95), covering her beat can be a stunted form of journalism. For a TV network reporter, who needs to worry about pictures at the expense of time for briefing and nuance, the problems are especially acute. Woodruff particularly chafed at "staging stakeouts along the White House driveway in boiling heat or pouring rain or sub-zero dawn, never knowing when a news subject is going to leave, or by what exit, or if you catch him, whether he will have anything...
...legislator a $1,000 bribe. In Georgia, a state representative claimed that he had been propositioned in an effort to solicit his vote. And in Florida, pro-ERA workers banged on doors of legislators' homes at 7 a.m. to hand them literature, a state senator's driveway was painted with pro-ERA slogans, and the white facade of the state capitol was defaced with pro-amendment mottoes...
...North Austin lay six miles of dry Texas land, minus the cacti and split by the freeway. The road had six lanes heavily populated with loud, fast Camaros, Continentals, VW buses, and larger vehicles. The side street the Oranges live on is wider than Mass. Ave; in fact, their driveway is wider than Mass...
That beautiful machine stalled right after I pulled out of the driveway. Flustered, I started it up and drove on slowly, hoping it wouldn't stall again. Suddenly, across my path I saw a car making a left turn and remembered in a flash that while there are lines of traffic in New England stopped at red lights, the Texans are more efficient, using four-way stop signs, one of which I hadn't noticed because I was worrying about the motor stalling My right foot braked; there was a crunch of metal against metal and a thud when...
...council also postponed the granting of driveway permits to two of the city's bigger businesses, after liberal members of the council chastised the merchants for ignoring community interests in their plans...