Word: paged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Library Awareness Program sounds like a high-minded effort to get kids to check out Huckleberry Finn. Actually, it is an FBI counterespionage effort. In a 33-page report issued last week, the bureau declared that stacks of the United Nations' Dag Hammarskjold Library, the New York City Public Library and the Library of Congress, among others, are haunted by Soviet agents who snitch sensitive research. Spies also prowl libraries to spot recruits -- such as the Queens College student approached in New York City by Gennadi Zakharov, the Soviet diplomat who was arrested in 1986 and exchanged for Journalist Nicholas...
...just little Jesse Helms that I married however many years ago. He's a very simple person. He just believes certain things, and he acts on them, and that's it." They met when both were working at the Raleigh News and Observer, she as editor of the society page, he as a sports reporter. They have raised two daughters and a son, whom the Helmses adopted as a 9-year-old orphan with cerebral palsy after reading about him in the newspaper one Christmas...
Though I have no immediate plans to meet my pen pal, I was happy to learn that people on the other side of the country actually care about what appears on this page. I also think that the sports page as a whole benefited from the exchange...
...wrote back explaining that there was only so much room on the page to cover more than a dozen sports teams. I told her that there were only a half-dozen sports writers to report on those dozen-or-so teams...
...editor used to tell me that column inches on the sports page reflected number of fans in the stands, and that if I thought about it, the so-called big teams probably deserved even more coverage, relative to minor sports, than we accorded them...