Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, veteran California journal ists note that the Chandler family, which controls the Times, once dominated the region's Republican Party to much the same extent as the Independent, Press-Telegram is accused of having controlled Long Beach. Furthermore, the I, P-T used its pages to criticize the Chandler family in the 1950s for trying to saddle Los Angeles with a concert hall that would carry the name of Dorothy Chandler but require public financing. (The plan was later altered to the I. P-T's satisfaction.) Was the Times getting even? Or was it trying...
...remarkable new vaccine, which World Health Organization officials describe as a "fantastic breakthrough" in the campaign against rabies, has passed another milestone test. Writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a team of U.S. and Iranian doctors last week reported that they recently administered the vaccine in a series of only six shots to 45 Iranians who had been bitten by rabid animals-nine by wolves and 36 by dogs. Not a single victim developed rabies or showed a severe allergic reaction. Reason: the new vaccine, unlike the old, is cultured in human rather than animal cells. Thus...
Although The Advocate was the first Harvard publication to admit women to its staff, it has never had a woman president, Douglas A. McIntyre '77, the literary journal's president, said yesterday. McIntyre "wouldn't be surprised" to see a woman as president within the next few years, he added. probably be a woman, because its staff consists almost entirely of women, David Godolphin '78, editor-in-chief of the year-old poetry magazine, said yesterday...
...Defense. Who ever heard of her? Then she gets the old switcheroo, and vwallah! She becomes an overnight bombshell--famous the world over for her rowdy racqueteering. She really took the ballboys by storm. She was voted America's most famous and respected female athlete by Ladies Home Journal--and she'd only been a woman for 24 days...
...affliction of writing at short lengths on all-too-familiar topics pervades the entire issue. The effect is profoundly negative. It reduces Daedalus to the status of a trade journal for intellectuals in the same fashion that Sporting News, which excerpts routine pieces by the best baseball writers in the country, is a trade journal for baseball nuts. The intrusion of sports similes is usually read as the utmost rebuke, but this analogy should not be taken that way. Both Sporting News and Daedalus can be purveyors of valuable information--although Sporting News is so in a much less pretentious...