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...Virginia politics. Woodward, 29, an enrolled Republican who had been with the paper only nine months, was reporting on unsanitary restaurants and petty police graft. More experienced investigators like Sandy Smith of TIME, Jack Nelson of the Los Angeles Times, Seymour Hersh of the New York Times, and James Polk of the Washington Star-News were later to enter the arena...
...award to White and the other Pulitzers made 1973 a Year of the Muckrakers. Another prize for national reporting went to Washington Star-News Reporter James R. Polk, 36, whose series on the financing of Nixon's 1972 campaign broke the story of Financier Robert Vesco's secret $200,000 contribution. A massive series by Long Island's Newsday, tracing heroin from Turkish poppy fields to New York streets, won a gold medal for meritorious public service. New York Daily News Reporter William Sherman, 27, was awarded a Pulitzer in special local reporting for a 14-part...
...shadow of Mondrian himself, the silence about such pioneers is still remarkable. For though the public did not look closely or often at their work, later artists did; the "mondrianists" were one of the secret influences on 1960s American abstraction. A case in point is the work of Leon Polk Smith, now on view-in the sort of brief, scrappy show that makes one wish for a proper retrospective somewhere-at Manhattan's Denise René Gallery...
...Senate to lobby for a treaty, and left saying "He'd be damned if he ever went there again"). They also feel bedeviled by Chief Justices - beginning with what Thomas Jefferson called the "twistifications" of John Marshall. Unappreciated by the people. Lonely. Unable to trust anybody. James Polk, a modest man who is regarded as a great President (he reduced the tariff and handled the annexation of California in 1848), spoke for all Presidents, and the source of Polk's pique was simple. "I am," he wrote in his diaries, "the hardest-working man in the country...
...outlook for other yields is far less rosy. Cold weather and rain have destroyed much of Georgia's peach crop, and the prospects for rice and Midwestern apples are glum. Last week Farmer Morris Moeckly looked over his rain-swamped land near Polk City, Iowa, and wryly wondered if his biggest crop this year might be fish. About 60 of his 450 acres are still under water, and Moeckly noted, "It will be much too late to plant corn in there...