Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...return in September, you will be serving on the following committees . . ." As if having a last fling, William Leuchtenburg, professor of American history at Columbia, is playing hooky from his book about Franklin Roosevelt and the Supreme Court to do a guest shot as color commentator for a local baseball team, the Greensboro Hornets. Red Barber, meet your New York exchange student...
...safety are involved, for example-but also for a freer marketplace. Some of his Republican counterparts view Kennedy in much the same mixed way. Says Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, a conservative who often needles Kennedy about his forays to the right: "Ted has no experience or confidence in local government. He still thinks all the competency is in Washington." G.O.P. Congressman Barber Conable also casts Kennedy as a centrist, a Big Government man but one who has stayed well within the mainstream of his own party. "Kennedy is a pragmatist, not an ideologue," says Conable...
...Local Setting of the Korean War--John Merrill, University of Delaware, 2 Divinity...
...connection with reporters, even those with recognized bylines, who impersonally fill their front pages. That contrast asserts Arnold Rosenfeld, editor of the Dayton Daily News, often favors TV personalities "who we print journalists think do a pretty lame job of news gathering." If Rosenfeld's paper headlines a local story 3 DIE IN FLAMING CRASH, the paper's spare recital of the facts is "seen as a coldhearted attempt to retail death," says Rosenfeld, while the TV viewer sees "the professionally saddened visage of the newscaster, a friendly, likable fellow, as a natural human response to tragedy...
...shifted from "self-improvement" to "self-fulfillment." To follow that trend, editors have been adding all those service features about what to eat and how to cope, which readers may like but newspapermen despair over. Another sign of the reader's "me" emphasis is a decided preference for local news. Yet, oddly enough, even though only a third of the readership follow national and international news closely, most readers seem to want it there on Page One and tend to resent front-page feature stories. Another third of the audience would read hard news more if it were summarized...