Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...calling your attention to the item in the People section [Feb. 28], concerning a dinner invitation that my wife [Merle Oberon] and I supposedly extended to President and Mrs. Johnson...
Across the nation, there was a great fumbling and clicking of chopsticks-an item that restaurants often ran out of, as Americans accustomed to forks and chop suey suddenly demanded authenticity. Instead of the familiar Cantonese cuisine, spicier Mandarin dishes enjoyed a vogue. Some adventurous diners even demanded preserved eggs and shark's-fin soup...
Standing on a flatbed truck in a snowstorm before the offices of the Manchester. N.H., Union Leader, Muskie defended his wife Jane against a snide bit of gossip about her in the newspaper. Its editor, the vitriolic, archconservative William Loeb, had reprinted a Newsweek item (itself a condensation of a story in Women's Wear Daily) detailing Mrs. Muskie's alleged penchant for predinner cocktails and an incident in which she supposedly asked reporters if they knew any dirty jokes. Muskie was particularly angered by the headline Loeb put on the Union Leader item: BIG DADDY...
...happens, Muskie had not even intended to make an issue of the item about his wife in the address outside the Union Leader office. But en route to Manchester, he brooded over the article, then startled his aides by bringing it up after he had finished the first part of his speech. That part was devoted to answering charges in an earlier Loeb editorial that Muskie had laughed at an aide's sneering reference to Franco-American New Englanders as "Canucks." Someone named Paul Morrison had claimed that he had witnessed the incident while Muskie was visiting a drug...
...protect its reputation for accuracy, RFE's broadcasts, if anything, err on the side of caution. When reports of Alexander Dubcek's ouster first came from Prague over a Western news ticker, RFE waited for Czechoslovakia's confirmation before airing the item. Despite the fact that for years RFE held up Yugoslavia as an example of how a Communist regime could peacefully develop toward liberalism, RFE has given extensive coverage to the Croatian crisis that has shaken Yugoslavia's progress toward greater governmental freedoms. Judging by the annual polls of East bloc tourists in Western Europe...