Word: notebooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...death was always somewhere out there in the crowd. Occasionally an ordinary citizen, a Negro more often than not, gave voice to the same fear: They won't let him live. At the first word of the shooting, a reporter with Kennedy workers in San Francisco wrote in his notebook: They seemed almost to expect it. There is grief. But more, there is a kind of weird acceptance. Horrible to see. They've been through assassinations before...
...deep voice sometimes approaching a whisper. His features are cramped into the lower half of his face, leaving the upper half all forehead. When he interviewed me at dinner a few months ago, he smiled often, and his conversation was an anecdotal as his profile-writing. Keeping his notebook far over to the right of the table, he took notes as unobtrusively as possible, looking down only when he somehow knew it was time to turn to a blank sheet. If this was an effort to avoid distracting me, it was counter-productive. I spent the better part of dinner...
...message had been gestating since last summer, when White House Aides Joseph Califano and Harry McPherson began tapping experts at more than 100 colleges and culling reports from at least ten task forces. Their research was assembled in a black loose-leaf notebook that grew to 400 pages, divided into 20 categories, by the time Johnson was ready to put on the final touches. Enjoining his writers to keep it concise, Johnson ordered a dozen drafts, rewriting much of the speech in pencil on a yellow legal...
...Bear") Bryant, 54-who currently, of course, is head coach at Alabama. What's more, Stallings was Bryant's assistant for seven seasons at Alabama before he took over at A. & M. in 1965. Like Bear, he talks in a soft drawl, and his Bible is a notebook filled with "everything I've heard Coach Bryant say in the 13 years I've known...
...example, the archdiocese of Mil waukee once affixed the approval of Archbishop William E. Cousins to a notebook in which priests could record the dates and hours of Masses said -even though the volume consisted of blank pages. Under church law, an imprimatur may be granted by the diocese in which an author lives, or where the publishing firm is located, or where the book is actually printed. Since bishops and their censors vary considerably in openness to new ideas, publishers frequently have been forced to display diplomatic ingenuity in finding a prelate willing to approve a touchy book...