Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gibson cited a meeting which was being covered by Times reporter Fox Butterfield in which someone in his administration, who objected to having reporters at town meetings, walked over to Butterfield and broke his pencil...
Butterfield then demanded that Gibson arrest the man who broke his pencil, saying, "I was assaulted," according to the former mayor...
Gibson said that because he refused to arrest the man and because he refused to apologize for the pencil breaking, the Times pulled their bureau out of Newark...
...about Bachrach. He merely asked them to accept his cryptic condemnation on faith. (It's hard to imagine any decent editor letting a writer get away with this sort of ipse dixit, but I guess the owner of a magazine doesn't have to submit to the usual red pencil...
...pencil-thin tree--which was planted Saturday--stands in front of Matthews Hall, across the path from an oak and a maple which were planted in front of Grays Hall before the 350th celebration last month...