Word: heralding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lasky is often correct on the well-known major sins of past Presidents, he indiscriminately elevates every questionable act, no matter how trivial, to an impeachable offense. Thus Lasky portrays Kennedy's impulsive decision to cancel White House subscriptions to the New York Herald Tribune, which has since ceased publication, as a serious presidential assault on the press. He rates in the same category L.B.J.'s use of Lawyer Clark Clifford, who pleaded with a few newspaper editors not to report Walter Jenkins' arrest for homosexual acts (Clifford asked that Jenkins be allowed quietly to quit...
Washington and London intend to give all the parties concerned at least a month to decide whether or not the plan is acceptable to them. Meanwhile, even many white Rhodesians were questioning the need for a general election in their country at this time. The Rhodesia Herald lamented in an editorial last week: "Wouldn't it be nice if someone told us what we are voting for?" Aiming to head off an imposed U.S.-British settlement, Smith called the surprise election in July, hoping that a new mandate would enable him to push through some kind of compromise with...
...also serves up some tough topical reportage. A recent article on the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner's unsavory condition was followed by Publisher George Hearst Jr.'s resignation. A critical study of auto-insurance inequities contributed to a city investigation of rate structures; a look at some of the top Californians in Washington saddled doze-prone Senator S.I. Hayakawa with the possibly durable tag "the Sominex...
...friend Tarpley Mott, the 17-year-old son of the editor of the Yazoo Daily Herald, told me he hoped the town does not become a tourist spot now. "That's always been one of the good things about it, not having any tourists at all," he said. "I'm a progressive person. I want change within ourselves, not from other people. Look what happened to Florida." One day in Stubb's as we ate Yazoo River catfish, Tarpley complained: "I can't find any of my friends today. Nobody's where they ought...
...movie? No, it is the tape-recorded musing of Donald B. Yarbrough, 35, associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court. Added to Yarbrough's other troubles, which range from 17 civil suits to a forgery indictment to an 84-count disbarment petition, the recording may well herald an early end to one of the strangest Texan judicial careers since the heyday of Hanging Judge Roy Bean...