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...education and that "neighborhood pressure [on Yale] will fall on financially deaf ears among my out-of-town alumni who are not in the habit of supporting New Haven...
Meanwhile, Chicago cops and out-of-town journalists also were still clashing in a month-long trial of 13 demonstrators charged with disorderly conduct for failure to obey police orders to stop their march toward convention hall. Among them was New York Post Columnist Murray Kempton, who testified that he considered the march "a peaceful revolt-a withdrawal for the evening from the Government." Patricia Saltonstall, a former Washington Star columnist and cousin of retired Senator Leverett Saltonstall, told the court that police had struck her in the face with a rifle barrel. She said she would seek an injunction...
Discussing coverage of the convention disorders, the Review noted approvingly that editors "nervously let their reporters set down uncomplimentary facts about the police and the mayor." But post-conventian coverage was something else. After out-of-town newsmen left Chicago, the Review claimed, "Mayor Daley was permitted to take over the media. Our own editorialists told us that we didn't really see what we saw under those blue helmets." The Review charged that the American had interviewed Police Superintendent James B. Conlisk about the disorders, then let him edit the resulting story...
...arranging the merger. The potential partners usually meet at a country club or on some other neutral ground. They size each other up stiffly and uneasily; drinks are practically never served. If extreme secrecy is necessary, the top executives travel to out-of-town hotels where they figure nobody will recognize them...
...shows' destinies are changed on the road, why do the producers bother with the expense and frustration at all? Harold Prince, Zorba's producer-director, finds the out-of-town critics helpful in suggesting changes that might make a good show better. (His Fiddler on the Roof and West Side Story were perhaps perfected on the road, but his flops, such as Flora, the Red Menace, benefited little from the out-of-town experience...