Word: notes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Atwater began his journalistic career on a festive note at age 16, when he put in a summer stint for the Springfield (Mass.) Union. The only staffer on hand at the paper's two-man Westfield bureau on V-J day, he recalls, "I took my typewriter, set it on a windowsill, and wrote about what I could see before me: a grand, impromptu celebration in the town square. It was a great moment for a kid raised on The Front Page...
...apathetic-like so many others -behind our Venetian blinds. I say, 'I'm going out, and I'm going to knock on people's doors in Andersontown to see how many people feel just as we do.' " The three set off with note pads into an area long known as an IRA stronghold, and within hours, they had hundreds of signatures on a peace petition. "I was like the Pied Piper," says Williams. "I ended up with a hundred women doing the same as me that night. Since then my life has gone topsy-turvy...
...above all, it would like to know the outcome. Says William W. Helman, chairman of the investment committee of Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co.: "There's a greater amount of uncertainty now about who is going to win, and the market doesn't like uncertainty." Market historians note that election campaigns usually are times of minor price movements. During the past seven presidential campaigns, from mid-August to Election Day the Dow has risen three times and dropped four; in no case has the swing been as wide...
...effect of desegregation on the quality of education in the schools is, of course, more difficult to measure. Overall, 75% of the school superintendents responding to the survey say that the quality of education in their schools is unchanged, 15% say it has improved, and 10% note a deterioration. In Williamsburg County, S.C., and Berkeley, achievement-test scores have risen since desegregation. Other "beneficial byproducts" of desegregation often include, the report says, better instructional programs, a reduction in dropout rates and increased participation of parents in school affairs. At the commission's hearing in Boston; Jane Margulis testified that...
...President managed to communicate this sense of optimism, however limited, and offer a foretaste of his campaign theme: a mixture of give 'em hell and emphasizing the record of his Administration. He began forcefully and with a surprise, injecting a note that had not been in the text: "This year the issues are on our side, and I'm ready and eager to go before the American people and debate the issues face to face with Jimmy Carter." That unusual challenge from an incumbent to an opponent brought the audience to their feet for one of 65 ovations...