Word: ottenberg
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DIED. Miriam Ottenberg, 68, investigative journalist for the Washington Star (1937-75) and winner of a 1960 Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles exposing the crooked techniques of used-car salesmen; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. Ottenberg would often impersonate a typical consumer, expose a fraudulent business, and then write about the laws that were instituted or adapted as a result. Said Robert Kennedy when he was Attorney General: "I sometimes think she is the secret head of the Justice Department...
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