Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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School Committeeman James F. Fitzgerald moved to reconsider the budget before the first agenda item had been taken up. The Committee originally passed the budget at 5 a.m. last Friday morning, after Fitzgerald had gone home...
...found in his car by the side of the road, shot dead with his own .22 pistol. His suicide note sounded desperate: "I have been waiting eleven hours for someone to stop. I can't stand the cold any longer and they just keep passing me by." The item was immediately picked up by the press, radio and television stations and exhibited as a thorn in the national conscience. Walter Cronkite saved it for his finale on the evening news. When he came to his usual closing line, "That's the way it is on February...
...magazine. Who, after all, could explain Gloria Steinem? Ah, but in this roiled world a few bedrocks remain. There it is-the good old Saturday Evening Post. No, it is the good old new old Saturday Evening Post, risen from the grave and swathed in thrift-shop clothing, an item of that rising phenomenon, nostalgia...
...Longest Items. Much of the digging had been done by Producer Barry Lando, who worked intermittently on the Herbert story for more than a year, interviewing scores of sources in the U.S., Viet Nam, Thailand and Germany. As a result, 60 Minutes devoted half the program to the Herbert story-more time than it has ever given to one item. Among the specific points raised...
...highway funds. Moreover, he asked Congress for the right to select which appropriations he could reject, in an effort to keep spending within $250 billion this fiscal year and the House meekly agreed. Mathias claims the House did so because it saw the matter "as a mere housekeeping item," while Ribicoff termed the Senate's rejection of this request "its most significant action in modern times." Approval would have given the President unprecedented authority to thwart congressional will...