Word: ington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pantagraph's strange ban has been in force so long that no one on the paper remembers when it began, or why. Some say it dates from the 1880s, when, for the first time, regular word of extra-Bloom-ington events came stuttering in over the newfangled press service telegraph and-in Bloomington, anyway-took a greedy grip on Page One. Today the sight of a local story on the front page would perturb editor and reader both...
...program, launched new four-year schools of medicine, dentistry and nursing, earnestly tried to make his university "the brain, the nerve center, the heart and the conscience and the will of the state." But he was a man too much in demand: he was called so often to Wash ington-as special assistant to President Truman on foreign aid, director of the Psychological Strategy Board, chairman of the board that judged the Oppenheimer case, and now as Assistant Secretary of Defense-that for much of the time he was an absentee landlord. Too few of his colleagues got to know...
James ("Scotty") Reston, the New York Times's diplomatic correspondent, had written out four polite questions in mid-December, had shown them to his Wash ington bureau chief, Pundit Arthur Krock, and then sent them around to the Soviet embassy with a covering letter. Reston had tried this system before with no luck, so he had no qualms about going off to Florida for a Christmas vacation. On Christmas Eve, his office tracked him down in St. Petersburg to relay a message: call the Russian embassy. Reston did, and the Christmas morning Times, in five-column headlines, accompanied...
...Word Unspoken. The Western plan was presented to the 60 nations of the U.N. with flourishes - in a formal American-British-French resolution, in a speech by President Truman from Wash ington, and finally in a cool, point-by-point Assembly address by U.S. Secretary of State Acheson...