Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...KINGDOM AND THE POWER, by Gay Talese. A former New York Times staffer takes his readers far behind the bylines for a gossipy analysis of the workings and power struggles within the nation's most influential newspaper...
...LARGE, last Thursday's McGovern Commission hearings in Boston were a New Politics show. Innumerable representatives of various organizations of former McCarthy and Kennedy supporters gathered before the Democratic Party commission to propose what they felt were changes in the operation of the party and of the American electoral system...
Where this ethic leads the New Politicians was most clearly demonstrated at the hearings in an hearings in an exchange between former Democratic National Chairman John Bailey's home state of Connecticut. The new politician, Thayer Baldwin, a New Haven attorney who serves as co-chairman of the Caucus of Connecticut Democrats, took exception to Bailey's defense of the state's tightly-controlled convention system of nominating candidates for public office. Bailey said that Connecticut Demo crafts--running nominees selected in this manner--had enjoyed a long series of electoral victories; Baldwin replied that rather than being preoccupied with...
...results to date give little evidence that time will provide such a boost. It is perhaps noteworthy that at the McGovern Commission hearings, the only black face in the room for most of the day was that of Earl Graves, the chairman of the McGovern task force, and a former Kennedy aide. And the only people there who appeared to be lacking a college education and at least a $15,000 annual income were the Parker House waiters who gave the New Politicians glasses of water after they'd finished telling the task force what was wrong with American politics...
...cases, like the one Burger ruled on, where licenses are questioned for bias or inadequate ser vices to the community. Last month the commission canceled its recent li cense renewal for Manhattan's WPIXTV. The station, owned by the New York Daily News, was accused by disgruntled former employees of distorting news shows with doctored film-a charge that WPIX denies and the FCC has yet to investigate. In Los Angeles, KHN-TV has been under FCC investigation since 1966, after businessmen accused it of neglecting local needs. These actions indicate a change in the FCC's hitherto...