Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...written--or as he prefers to say, "collaborated" with Nixon on--the major White House Watergate messages. He is considered a moderate Republican, but his position on the tapes, he admits, is that of a "hardliner." Price was a Life reporter and later editor of the New York Herald Tribune's editorial page. When the Tribune folded in 1966, he began writing a novel about life in New York City--a project interrupted in 1967 by Richard Nixon's offer of a campaign...
Fieser was aware of the continuing use of his invention, but he didn't become really outraged about it until June 1972, when he read in the Boston Herald Traveler that a napalm accident in Vietnam had killed or maimed 20 civilians and soldiers. He realized that U.S. soldiers were using napalm as an antipersonnel weapon, not just to burn down buildings. He had never suspected that napalm could be useful to the United States because of the way it clung to people's skin while it burned. A week after he read the article, he wrote Nixon...
...demonstrators, all of whom belong to either the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) or the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), said reporting by The Globe and The Boston Herald American of the burning death of Evelyn Wagler Tuesday night and the stabbling death of Louis Barba on Thursday "made it look like blacks were on the rampage" and contributed to the spread of anti-black hysteria throughout the city...
...baseball team, he considered abandoning music for the major leagues when he was offered a tryout by the old Boston Braves. But he sacrificed his budding athletic career to begin studying music composition at New York University. A night job as copy boy on the New York Herald Tribune aroused an interest in writing, led to a master's degree in journalism, a stint with the Associated Press and eventually to a job as a Tribune music critic...
Bosom Buddies. The climax of the opening ceremonies seemed to herald a match between Genghis Khan and Catherine of Russia. King was borne in on a red-draped gold divan by four bare-chested men wearing slave armbands, while Riggs entered in a ricksha pulled by five of the ample girls he refers to as "bosom buddies." He presented Billie Jean with a large Sugar Daddy sucker ("for the biggest sucker in the world"); the stunt had Billie Jean's full cooperation, since it reportedly earned each a fast fat $20,000. King responded by giving Bobby a live...