Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Muzzling the Press. On local newspapers, the regime imposed strict censorship and gave itself the power to take over any newspaper it chose "in the interest of public safety." Censors prevented the Rhodesia Herald, which opposed U.D.I., from putting out an independence extra; and when the paper finally appeared the next day, its pages were studded with gaping white blank spaces-one of them 20 in. long-where the censors' scissors had been at work...
...cope with him. His elder brother Gerard (later president of General Electric) took him in hand, tried to infuse a little discipline into this wayward spirit. Instead, Herbert strayed into journalism, then one of the more undisciplined professions, and eventually surfaced as a cub reporter for the New York Herald...
...hired boy," and he resigned in 1929. By then, the World was approaching its end-which Swope helped to bring on. Sensation seekers came to feel the paper was too pretentiously intellectual, and defected to the tabloids. The intelligentsia found it lightweight, and defected to the Times and Herald Trib une. Swope had got out just in time...
...battlefield and the brilliant backroom masterminding of his campaign manager, Robert Price, 33, a blue-jowled, Rasputin-like Bronx Republican. G.O.P. Senator Jacob Javits, a magic name in New York's Jewish districts, came on as campaign chairman. Money flowed in from the Rockefeller family, New York Herald Tribune President Walter Thayer, and from purses farther west-notably from Tire Tycoon Leonard K. Firestone in California and Food Magnate H. J. Heinz II in Pittsburgh. In all, the Lindsay campaign cost close to $2,000,000 and, as usual, wound up in debt...
...Guardia tended to receive smaller majorities each time he ran, and he had larger majorities than Lindsay to begin with. (John Purrey Mitchell, an earlier reform mayor, failed to win reelection entirely.) Whatever the success of his programs, the new Mayor will certainly receive plenty of adulation from the Herald Tribune, Times, Time, etc., but New York in 1969 will still be a Democratic city, and Lindsay may not face as vulnerable an opponent as Abraham Beame...