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...Evening News with a two-minute film report from a leaf-strewn country road in Vermont ("It is death that causes this blinding show of color, but it is a fierce and flaming death"). While rolling through Ohio in November, Kuralt noticed that every town in the area except Harrisburg (pop: 360) was plastered with campaign posters. This led to an account of a town that was holding an election but "managed to escape all the unseemly excitement of Election Day by the simple expedient of nobody running for anything." The town treasurer, a lady who keeps the ledgers...
...Herder in 1962. Although the articles had caused no great stir when printed in magazine form, the late Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York refused to give his imprimatur; because Spellman said no, Herder and Herder was turned down by three other bishops - of Philadelphia, Rockville Centre, N.Y., and Harrisburg, Pa.-before getting approval from the Diocese of Pittsburgh. Since then, Herder has followed the lead of another Catholic firm, Sheed & Ward, in having its books printed in Vermont -for the sole reason that it can usual ly count on clearing them with open-minded Bishop Robert Joyce of Burlington...
...recall, several years before 1921, when the meeting of Boy Scout Troop Eleven let out on Friday nights, the Golden Seal Drugstore on the East Side of Market Square in Harrisburg, had an influx of hungry kids guzzling chocolate malted milk shakes to stave off imminent acute starvation and give us strength to hike a good mile to our homes where we could get into the ice-operated refrigerator and take on enough to enable us to survive until breakfast...
...Israeli side, things also seemed fairly familiar to Marlin Levin, our Jerusalem stringer, who has been through every previous Arab-Jewish crisis. A U.S. newspaperman from Harrisburg, Pa., he went to the Holy Land on his honeymoon in 1947, stayed on to cover the war of independence, and has been there ever since. When the current clash developed, he was joined by Rome Bureau Chief Israel Shenker and Madrid Bureau Chief Peter Forbath...
...this," he says. "I don't think I ever hesitated." Indeed, from the day of his inauguration, Shafer began plotting and plugging for reform. With his aides, he set up a special office wryly dubbed "Fort Courage" in the Penn-Harris Motor Inn near the capitol building in Harrisburg. He enlisted Scranton's help, as well as that of former Democratic Governor George M. Leader; he raised $50,000 to finance the campaign and began a fatiguing round of personal appearances. He especially emphasized constitutional reforms that would: 1) upgrade Pennsylvania's outmoded judicial system; 2) periodically...