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...covered the candidates' staffs and even the rest of the press more closely this year. The Washington Post's David Broder, for example, recently reported on the Carter press corps' fondness for wisecracking Trip Director Jim King, who, after reporters found no working telephones at several makeshift press rooms along the day's route, announced that "because of the inexperience of the advance man at the next stop, the phones were not removed from the hotel as ordered. You will be able to file...
...blacks and four whites in the public schools. Overall, there are now 3,500 private academies in the South. About 750,000 mostly middle-class students-one out of ten white students in the South-attend these schools, which vary widely in quality and tuition. Some are makeshift affairs in church basements; others have multimillion-dollar facilities and are as good as or better than the region's public schools. Although they were founded in response to desegregation, the academies are preferred by some parents partly because they tend to be less permissive (paddling for discipline is a common...
...Saturday at the spot where the children had been killed. Some 10,000 women, some wheeling prams, streamed into the rally from Protestant and Catholic districts long regarded as irreconcilably hostile. Another rally was called for the following Saturday, and this time the women arrived 20,000 strong, with makeshift banners bearing the names of their streets and demanding peace...
...Philadelphia killer, some 150 federal and state disease detectives-physicians, biologists, chemists-set to work in Pennsylvania in a massive microbe hunt that resembled a police dragnet. Working round the clock, state officials turned an office in Harrisburg into a sort of "war room." One wall of the makeshift headquarters was covered with a map pierced with colored pins tracing the outbreak of Legionnaires' disease-red pins for deaths, yellow ones for reported illness. At several desks, shirtsleeved workers transferred information onto large sheets of graph paper. At others, workers telephoned the state's more than 300 hospitals...
...makeshift courtroom in Luanda's sandstone Chamber of Commerce building, where they went on trial last month, the 13 British and American mercenaries gathered after a nine-day hiatus in the proceedings, during which the five-member revolutionary tribunal had deliberated their fate. Optimism ran reasonably high among Angolan, British and American defense lawyers, even though Prosecutor Manuel Rui Monteiro had demanded death for all. In his marathon summation (3 hr. 20 min.), Monteiro had blasted the U.S. and British governments more than the mercenaries. He branded the U.S. as "the home of the CIA and the mother...