Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...receptionist. Says he: "She made all my appointments and typed letters into the thousands." But she typed so slowly, she insists, that other secretaries had to finish her letters. "I could never learn the keyboard," she says. To Gray, Liz was "an exhibitionist. She'd call up at midnight and say she was going to kill herself...
Nausea, boredom and physical discomfort set in, and a few people begin raising their hands for the official silver-colored est bags to throw up in. By around midnight (no watches are allowed in the room), we have been going more than 15 hours with only two bathroom breaks and no food. Ron announces we will go without a food break today (groans) but we will just do a few exercises and go home (sighs of relief). We go another two or three hours, of course, so the anger can build into fury. We do "processes" (relaxation and meditation exercises...
Barely an hour before midnight the night that I called him, I had asked Rosenthal if it would be all right to use his Nieman dinner comments for an article. Nieman dinners are traditionally off-the-record...
...rode down in the elevator I smiled again at what Rosenthal had told me as he greeted me in his office. Right off he mentioned that midnight phone call. He said it had amused him when he had thought about it later on--it remineded him, he said, of his younger days as a U.N. reporter, when he routinely called the Secretary-General at midnight or later. Invariably the Secretary-General's first words were, "Rosenthal, is that you again...
...Republican side, President Ford defeated former governor Ronald Reagan of California in a mild upset in Kentucky, but Reagan beat Ford by wide margins in Nevada, Idaho, and Arkansas. At midnight, CBS rated both Tennessee and Oregon too close to call...