Word: piked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Almost from the day last February that CBS suspended him for passing a copy of the secret Pike committee report on CIA operations to New York's Village Voice, Daniel Schorr suspected that he would never again appear as a CBS correspondent. Then came his eloquent defense of a reporter's First Amendment rights last month before the House ethics committee, which had demanded that he identify his source. "To betray a source would be to betray myself, my career and my life," he declared. "I cannot...
...pressured Walter Cronkite, Eric Sevareid and Dan Rather to go easy on Richard Nixon the night he announced his resignation from the presidency-a charge all three deny. Worse, for several hours last Feb. 11, Schorr let his bosses believe that Fellow Correspondent Lesley Stahl leaked the Pike report. Some of the people Schorr worked with in the CBS Washington bureau have never forgiven him. Said a correspondent: "It's one thing to deceive management. It's another thing to shit on your colleagues...
Despite the examples of Maren Bergrud and his son, one of Pike's great gifts was in aiding the people who flocked to consult...
...authors examine Pike's many efforts to talk with the dead (notably Jim Jr.) in seances, and suggest that the mediums he used probably learned in advance almost all of the obscure information that so impressed the bishop. They also note that since he and Diane agreed on the survival of the soul, they cut the words "till death do us part" from their marriage ceremony...
...supervision of Seiji Ozawa, and the program for this summer looks particularly good. For $3.50, you can guarantee yourself a spot on the lawn for a picnic and listen to, on July 18 for example, Ozawa conduct an all-Haydn program. Access is easy--exit 1 on the Mass Pike, and buses from Boston...