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...taxed his publisher, McGraw-Hill. Investigations showed that some 12,000 words of The Memoirs had been lifted more or less directly from a 1940 book about Wounded Knee. McGraw-Hill settled the plagiarism suit, but the chief was unfazed. He promptly updated his show-business career, exploiting his new-found notoriety on TV talk shows...
...obvious to us that The Crimson is not content to simply bring the news of each day to its readership. Rather, the Crimson apparently continues to check the facts of each story which appears and is not ashamed to bring new-found knowledge, once it has sincerely and innocently defamed the character of the subjects of their stories. The sheer size of the corrections column corroborates this fact. And the consistency of this column points to the fact that each day's paper is not allowed to "rest in peace," rather, it is searched with a fine-toothed comb...
...cranberry grower being interviewed by intrepid Roving Reporter Wally Ballou is surprised to learn of such things as cranberry juice and cranberry jelly, and rushes off with these new-found uses for his product...
There were some awkward moments and some outright blunders, but even so, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat seemed to have achieved most of his goals within days of his arrival in the U.S. for a state visit last week. The White House, obviously intent on cementing its new-found friendship with Sadat, gave him the maximum treatment, including a 21-gun salute and a fanfare from 14 red-coated trumpeters. There was also the news that President Ford had asked for $750 million in economic aid to Egypt as part of a $3.4 billion Middle East aid package that...
After the junta's iron-fisted rule, Greece is now savoring the political and cultural freedoms of a revived democracy. But the new-found liberties, rather than mellowing the desire for retribution, seem to have inflamed it. Released from rigid censorship, almost every art form has been used to launch direct or indirect attacks on the junta...