Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout the year of research, Shapiro found that "responsibility for the threat to a fair trial could be placed not on the media themselves, but rather on an attorney or public official who made an ill-timed public statement of alleged fact." This conclusion served as a basis for the tone of the Committee's final report. "Our report does not bear heavily on the press," chairman Reardon maintains, "but is mainly directed to the bench, bar, and law enforcement agencies. When we began our investigation, the press rightly raised the question 'Why don't they clean their own house...
...make sure that the textbook shortage of Fall, 1965--the worst shortage in the Coop's history--wouldn't be repeated. Arnold Swenson, former manager of the Columbia University book store, had been hired in January as a sort of ambassador to the Harvard Faculty. But he was seriously ill all spring...
...Edmund L. McNamara. "The more the press blasts the serious criminal, the better we like it," says Chief Edward F. Leiss of Metuchen, N.J. "I don't think the police are giving out too much information about accused persons," adds Commissioner Russell T. Beebe of East St. Louis, Ill. "I don't think they're giving out enough." Says Houston Prosecutor Carol Vance: "The public has a right to know what's going on-crime is their concern...
When Jackie Gleason suddenly up and announced his retirement from CBS television last winter, he got a wire of "appreciation" from an NBC vice president. The telegram was ill timed. In the first place, the Gleason show had become so lackluster in recent seasons that he already seemed semiretired. In the second place, Gleason turned right around and signed an $8,000,000 deal with CBS for one more season. It would be, he proclaimed, "something different" and "something better...
...Durocher, Frankie Frisch, Mel Ott, and anyone else with the temerity to question his calls, at one time or another heaving pop bottles back at the stands, breaking the jaw of a catcher who attacked him, and thrashing a fan who did likewise; of pneumonia; in Rock Island, Ill...