Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know why, what it all means, who said what to whom. Ziegler rarely tells them. Last week it took reporters two full days to extract from him the admission that the President had had a say in the dropping of charges against the Green Berets accused of murder-even though it was obvious that no such decision could have been made without Nixon's approval...
Closing the Gap. MIST's concept and operation are simple, but its effects are far-reaching. Begun as a pilot study that covered only four counties in Alabama, the project is now bringing the advice of medical specialists even to some of the most remote corners of the state. The idea was developed late last year by the Alabama Medical College dean, Dr. Clifton K. Meador, whose experience as a physician in Selma, Ala., had led him to believe that there were serious "defects in the communications between physicians and med ical centers." Meador decided to close that...
Traditionally, a President makes himself accessible to a few reporters whose influence, usefulness, or even friendship gains them favored status. Jack Kennedy nightcapped his Inaugural at the home of Columnist Joseph Alsop; Lyndon Johnson in the early days regularly called in James Reston of the New York Times for private chats and personally leaked stories to Drew Pearson. Richard Nixon has changed all that. He follows a methodical formula for the impartial treatment of members of the Washington press corps: he is equally remote from all of them. He grants no private interviews, and, until two weeks ago, had held...
Moreover, no one accuses Ziegler of creating an affability gap. Over cocktails, or throwing a football around at San Clemente, reporters find his company a pleasure. His easygoing nature is a rarity among White House staffers, and even his most muffled answers are often accompanied by a disarming smile that makes him look like a twelve-year-old playing a prank. "In the Johnson days, we would have screamed credibility gap," says Don Bacon of the Newhouse newspapers. "You can be mad as hell at him, but the son of a gun breaks into that grin, and you forget...
...magnificent California chestnut, Majestic Prince, in both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness. The Prince was favored to take the Belmont Stakes and thereby become the first thoroughbred to win racing's Triple Crown since Citation turned the trick in 1948. But the race was not even close: guided by the steady hand of Braulio Baeza, Arts and Letters whipped Majestic Prince by 5½ lengths...