Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exchange's action came as a be lated response to longtime criticism of established indexes, notably the famed Dow-Jones, produced by the publishers of the Wall Street Journal. Things got to the point where no less a tape watcher than Lyndon Johnson - disturbed because the Dow apparently made the market decline in the spring of 1965 seem worse than it was - urged that the stock exchange come up with a new way to measure the market...
...absorbing Washington game that Philip Geyelin calls "Lyndonology"-the study of the President-is usually more of a cutting-down than a building-up pastime. Geyelin, the diplomatic correspondent of the Wall Street Journal, adds some choice cuts. In this book, the first comprehensive study of Lyndon Johnson's performance in foreign policy, Geyelin reports that the President sent the Marines to Santo Domingo with the cry that it was "just like the Alamo." And he records some presidential double-edged scorn: Handing the Dominican government back to Juan Bosch, said Johnson, "would be like turning it over...
...Apparently susceptibility to most diseases has no relationship to fitness," they concluded from their research. Exercise, they suggest in the current Journal of the Association for Physical and Mental Rehabilitation, is certainly not "a universal panacea...
...package is ratified, the strike will be officially over. The publishers will then be locked in a legal battle with the Printing Pressmen, who insist that their only contracts are with papers that no longer exist. As long as they lack a new contract with the World Journal Tribune, they say, they will not work. That argument is already being contested in the courts, but legal action was suspended while Guild picket lines kept the Pressmen from working, contract or no. Once the picket lines disappear, the publishers may well find themselves back in court-and another such delay...
...however, left the New York Herald Tribune perilously short of staffers. To replace them, Trib editors had to fill the ranks with reporters from the afternoon paper. "It was the greatest draft since the big-league baseball teams were raided for men to make up the Mets," said World Journal Editor Frank Conniff, who sat down with Trib editors to parcel out the players. Hardly recognizing the names of some of the staffers they were acquiring, Trib editors simply had to take their chances...