Word: localism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps prompted by the complaints and uncertainty, the Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service, Dr. William Stewart, has taken a cautious position on the spray. In a letter to state and local health authorities, he warned that Mace's prolonged irritant ability "clearly increases the possibility of more than transient effects to the exposed individuals unless treatment is prompt." He added that further study would be necessary "to determine possible chronic effects." A spokesman...
...exact age). After high school, he began performing at night under such names as Larry Love and Deny Dover in dreary Greenwich Village bars. Since becoming a regular two years ago at a midtown nightspot called The Scene, he has risen to the status of court jester in the local realm of camp. Now six network television appearances, and the recent release of his first record album, have helped place him in a cultish tradition, that goes back through Shakespeare's clowns all the way to the Roman circus-that of the holy fool...
...first time in the history of Pulitzer prizes, a single publisher, John S. Knight, 73, carried off three of them last week. His Detroit Free Press won top prize for local general reporting, the Charlotte Observer's Eugene Gray Payne was named best cartoonist, and Knight himself was cited for editorial writing. It was a day of rare honors for a publisher who has not gone out of his way to seek them...
Knight has never fancied himself a domineering press lord. Preferring to call his papers a group, not a chain, he encourages local autonomy, and his papers make the most of it. The Detroit Free Press (circ. 605,000), the Miami Herald (369,600), the Charlotte Observer (177,950), the Akron Beacon Journal (178,147), the Charlotte News (63,772) and the Tallahassee Democrat (29,300) are all increasing their circulation and are highly profitable. With interests in one television and three radio stations as well as three Florida weeklies, the group's total revenues reached $123 million...
Ruthlessly Local. Authority is generously delegated all down the line at Knight newspapers. Reporters are free to pursue a story as long as they think it is worth it. This has produced some memorable series, including the Free Press's Pulitzer-winning analysis of last summer's ghetto riots. For five weeks a trio of reporters investigated every one of the 43 deaths that occurred during the riots. As a result of the series, three white policemen and a Negro watchman were indicted this month for conspiring to violate the civil rights of eight Negroes held...