Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work of a striking employee or sympathizer wishing to prove that the fill-in reporters do not know what they are doing. If that was the point, it was well made. Houseman did not notice that the bogus release was typed rather than mimeographed, and he never checked the item with Kennedy's office. An embarrassed U.P.I, alerted its subscribers to kill the story 90 minutes after the first dispatch had sped over the wire...
...Editors of the Chicago Tribune last week wished that they could have called back an item in their March 24 Sunday magazine. Appearing five days after the death of former NBC Anchor Man Chet Huntley, the piece related an interview with Huntley last fall, including some critical remarks about his battles with conservationists over a planned Montana resort ("In the past three years, Huntley has gone from being a national hero to something of a local villain"). A prefatory note told readers that Huntley had undergone surgery for cancer last December and quoted a friend as saying...
...Says a Panglossian spokesman for Helen (named for no one): "Driver reaction has been surprisingly great. The drivers feel that it will stimulate bright conversation with their passengers." Chiefs of Helen Maintenance are trying to persuade the Checker Co. of Kalamazoo, Mich., to make the spiffy interiors a standard item on all the taxis that it manufactures for New York...
Papain, an enzyme derived from the papaya plant, is a familiar item to most housewives. Sold in grocery stores as a meat tenderizer, it can make even the toughest cuts easy to chew. Now papain is moving from the kitchen into the operating room. At hospitals in Boston and Chicago, doctors are using the extract (known medically as chymopapain) to tenderize slipped spinal discs, a treatment that relieves pain and spares many patients surgery...
Marathon Session. There was no glib talk this time of Labor's first hundred days, but Wilson set out to make his first hundred hours count. The first item on the agenda was to get the coal miners back to work- and back to work they went. Even before he was sworn in, Wilson's new Employment Secretary, Michael Foot, summoned officials of the National Union of Mineworkers and the government's National Pay Board. In a marathon twelve-hour bargaining session, they managed to hammer out an agreement that had eluded Heath's government...