Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This time, Rocky's off-the-cuff remarks became a matter of public record. A Republican leader who had listened to him at the Georgia gathering got in touch with David Nordan, political editor of the Atlanta Journal. "Don't you think you press guys should expose this?" the Republican demanded. After checking the caller's account with three other individuals who had heard the Vice President's remarks, Nordan pieced the story together and the Journal ran it on Page One last week...
Senator Barry Goldwater (R., Ariz.), in an unusually wide-ranging article scheduled for the May issue of the Notre Dame Journal of Legislation, raises the question of how "a political conservative who ordinarily is skeptical of more public spending" can support postal appropriations that the White House opposes. The Senator answers with six detailed reasons, the final one being that "free speech, and all that means to the general public and our way of life, is truly involved." Noting "the historic role of the public mails as promoting public enlightenment and the security of a free people," Senator Goldwater concludes...
...power in 1949. In the early 1950s, after gaining a reputation as an expert in agriculture, he was made party secretary in Mao's home county of Hsiang-t'an. Hua achieved brief nationwide notice by writing an article for Study magazine, the party's theoretical journal, on the changing class structure in that region. By 1958 he had become vice governor of populous (50 million) Hunan province. He emerged unscathed from the Cultural Revolution and in 1970 became the head of the province's revolutionary committee-a position roughly equivalent to Governor...
Doctors elsewhere in the U.S. are fighting back. The journal Medical Economics reports that one oral surgeon in the East was awarded $4,500 in damages, plus costs, from a patient who had claimed malpractice. At a preliminary hearing in Fort Pierce, Fla., a judge recently set a Florida precedent by letting stand an orthopedic surgeon's charge of "malicious prosecution" in his separate $1.5 million countersuits against two former patients and their lawyers. Though the cases have yet to be tried, the doctor's attorney, Ellis Rubin, thinks that they have already had a chastening effect...
Died. John Cogley, 60, Roman Catholic journalist and author (Catholic America); of a. heart attack; in Santa Barbara, Calif. At various points in his career an editor of Commonweal, a liberal Catholic journal, and founder of the Center Magazine, the journal of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Cogley also served as an aide in John F. Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign and was instrumental in engineering a meeting between Kennedy and a number of prominent Protestant clergy in Houston, which defused Catholicism as a campaign issue. Late in life (1973), Cogley left the Catholic Church because...