Word: kirkpatrick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world, the press is an apparatus of the state charged primarily with educating the masses about state policies. Third World leaders may prefer the Western model, but believe they need a controlled press to promote economic development, accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. Observes Chicago Tribune Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick: "I hear the same complaints from the Third World as I do from Highland Park, Ill., where people think we should cover the opening of a new civic center...
Many women are heartened, however, by the gains at the local level. Connecticut's Ella Grasso, the first woman to win a governorship in her own right, says these victories will percolate women into office in a few years. Adds Georgetown University Politics Professor Jeane Kirkpatrick: "Women just are not able to start at the top, where the prejudices haven't disappeared." But the number of women winning local elections is not inspiring: women now hold 9% of the seats in state legislatures, 2% of the state judgeships, 3% of the county commission offices, 8% of the mayoral and local...
...apparently shooting and killing his wife; in Oak Lawn, Ill. A series on a scandal-infested municipal sanitary district won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1962; subsequently, he headed inquiries into election fraud and federal housing programs that garnered his paper two more Pulitzers. According to Tribune Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick, Bliss was a "perfectionist who agonized over details and in effect became a victim of his own intense devotion to journalism...
...knowledgeable and reflective on important matters three times a week. So for their Op-Ed pages, editors now look around for speeches or articles by specialists to cover many subjects. "The Washington column is over the hill a little bit," the Chicago Tribune's editor Clayton Kirkpatrick believes. "The world is more complex, the issues are more varied. Mark Sullivan used to write fundamentally about politics, but that was before politics became so embedded in science, in economics, in sociology...
John Fahey and Mark Dix--Passim at 8 and 10:30 p.m. Strange Brew Coffeehouse--Hilles penthouse at 8 p.m. Kirkpatrick and Myers--Back Room at the Idler...