Word: lures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today the well-heeled political candidate spends all he can to buy television time. When money runs low, he uses his ingenuity to organize "news events":-a post-office dedication, say, or an appearance with an illustrious visitor-anything that will lure the ubiquitous television camera. "I know we're being used," admits NBC's David Brinkley, as he looks ahead toward
...lure of news in the raw though, it was wariness born of long experience as reporters that caused Cronkite'and his executive producer Ernest Leiser to hesitate and worry for hours over whether to run the now-famous film sequence showing U.S. Marines in August 1965 burning a Vietnamese village. Were the pictures fair to the U.S.? To the Marines? Or was their message somewhat out of balance? In the end, it was decided that the pictures were simply too good to pass up. So, along with a narration by CBS Correspondent Morley Safer, Cronkite's audience...
...lure Schrotel into private business, Kroger gave him a raise of more than $7,000 above the $18,000 paid him by Cincinnati. As chief company cop, he will head a team of security officers responsible for 1,458 stores spread over 24 states. His duties will range from advising management on security policies and investigating major thefts to planning such seemingly simple preventive measures as how to keep a store's back door effectively locked...
...easy to know that white marlin, those denizens of the deep, don't eat rabbits. But do the marlin know it? Hosting, the Second Annual Governors Invitational Marlin Tournament at Ocean City, Maryland's pixyish Governor J. Millard Tawes, 72, arrived with a "secret weapon"-a lure made from a rabbit's foot with a hook in it. Presto! Barely five minutes after Tawes got out to the fishing grounds, a 7-ft. 4-in. marlin hurled itself at his line. "My goodness!" exclaimed Tawes, and pumped in the prize. No one else got even a sniff...
...newspaper does not die suddenly. It is slowly consumed by disease that spreads throughout the structure. First it loses a vivid editor, then its best reporters, then its power to lure talent and youth. It dies because advertising shrinks and economies prune live branches with the dead wood; it dies because unions want more money and it has none to give. Yet it dies hard, lingering on until even the stubbornest owners realize that the only answer is a mercy killing...