Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York Times Executive Vice President Harding Bancroft recalled that before the favorable Supreme Court decision on the Pentagon papers, the press was in fact restrained for 15 days until it was allowed to publish. Representative Ogden Reid, former publisher of the now-defunct New York Herald-Tribune, emphasized that "this is the first time . . . that prior restraint has been sought by the Federal Government." As for the broadcasting industry, Walter Cronkite of CBS charged that because it is beholden to the Government for its right to exist, "it is at the mercy of politicians and bureaucrats. Its freedom has been...
...overwhelmingly favorable. The Philadelphia Inquirer praised "an act of courage and statesmanship unparalleled by any U.S. chief executive for at least a third of a century," and the Baltimore Sun approved "an activist flexing of government muscles not seen since the early Roosevelt experiments." "No longer," noted the Miami Herald, "is the American economy all sail and no rudder." Cartoonists portrayed Nixon variously as a parody of Roosevelt, ministering belatedly to a crippled economy, or carping at his critics before television cameras...
TIME'S survey also turned up a scattering of sour gripes. The Chicago Tribune shrugged off the Sun-Times disclosures as a "rehash" because some of its material had previously been published elsewhere. Boston's Herald Traveler ignored the revelations of the rival Globe. Detroit News Editor Martin Hayden, beaten by the Knight's competing Free Press, complained that the Pentagon study was "only offered to the so-called antiwar papers." And the Houston Post did not even mention the dis closures until Attorney General John Mitchell moved against the Times, four days after the story broke...
...John Simon (of Andrew Sarris Fame); novelist Julian Moynihan ( Pairing Off ); screenwriter Frank Pierson ( Cat Ballou and Cool Hand Luke ); psychiatrist Willard Gaylin ( In The Service of Their Country: War Resisters in Prison )-and a number of veteran newspapermen (two from the Christian Science Monitor others from the Boston Herald and the Globe ), but, again, there are also an equal number representing the field of corporate journalism, working for Time/Life and Newsweek -including, of course, Osborn Elliott, Newsweek editor-in-chief and chief marshal for Commencement...
...pupil, is teaching Japanese to 200 boys. Japan is already Australia's second most important trading partner (after the U.S.), and that trade has quadrupled in the past ten years. But the nature and extent of the relationship are as yet undetermined. Writes Peter Robinson, the Sydney Morning Herald's specialist on Japanese affairs: "There has never before been an advanced nation of European descent which has been largely dependent for its economic welfare on an advanced Asian nation. The real issue that now faces both Australia and Japan is a racial one. Can two dramatically different societies...