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...Lindley Rule...
...given, the Washington press has gone as far as the government in institutionalizing the informed source. There are several reporters' organizations which specialize in the "backgrounder," a lunch or dinner at which a source is first fed, then pumped. These events usually take place under the umbrella of the "Lindley Rule," an invention of Ernest K. Lindley, a former reporter now in the State Department. The Lindley Rule says that reporters may write what they hear on their own authority without attribution to U.S. officials or anyone else; if questioned, the reporters are to deny the backgrounder ever occurred...
...Died. Lindley Armstrong ("Spike") Jones, 53, antic bandleader of the pistol-popping, whistle-shrieking, Bronx-cheering City Slickers during the 1940s and '50s, a square-jawed musical clown with airplane eyebrows and wildly checked suits, who was an unknown drummer when he formed the Slickers in 1942 and led them to success with rowdy parodies of sentimental hits (Black Magic, Cocktails for Two) until rock 'n' roll drowned him out in 1962; of emphysema; in Los Angeles...
...prose, and many U.S. educators agree with him about the historic importance of the new law that is formally titled the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. "It is a tremendous breakthrough," says Atlanta School Superintendent John Letson. "As significant as the passing of social security legislation," says Lindley Stiles, dean of the University of Wisconsin's School of Education. New York State Education Commissioner James E. Allen Jr. forecasts a "tremendous impact" for the bill; to him, it symbolizes the fact that the knowledge explosion has put an end to the mythology of the self-made, self...
...This is the battle of the century," says Dean Lindley J. Stiles of the University of Wisconsin School of Education. And if at first it seems like an insiders' war it nonetheless affects every parent in the land...