Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officials vehemently deny that their selective coverage is motivated by a hunger for higher ratings. "It's about time the conventions were covered like a news story, not a pageant," says Walter J. Pfister Jr., vice president for special television news programs. "We try to cover the convention the way you would edit a newspaper." For viewers who recall the long-winded platform debates and seconding speeches of previous conventions, that approach makes good sense...
...Orange Line is, without doubt, the class of the Boston system. From Everett in the north to Forest Hills in the south, it's a pageant of all that's possible in a subway line. The Orange Line's forte is the variety of city views which it provides. Its heart is the finest station in the system, Washington Street. Washington Street is truly a big city station--it's one of those big city features which Boston has even though it's really a pretty small place. Washington Street has long, broad corridors built for crowds, and platforms lined...
More than 15,000 Boy Scouts will converge on Harvard's athletic fields this weekend to participate in "Scouting Spirit '76," a mammoth extravaganza including camping, bicentennial games, an air show, track and field events, swimming, and a pageant in Harvard Stadium...
Later the Pageant Show will begin with a "Grand March" into the Stadium led by a drum and bugle corp. After the pageant and an evening bonfire with songs, the scouts who remain will climb into their tents for one more night of camping at Harvard...
...them still Kennedy-era holdovers who leaked presidential secrets to Nixon's "enemies" in the press. It was back then, midway through his first term, according to Pulitzer-prize winning Journalist J. Anthony Lukas, that Nixon set out to totally demolish his various tormentors. The result was the pageant of buggings, break-ins, dirty tricks and dirty money that led to Watergate and has now preoccupied the U.S. public for so long...