Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wallace press bus rolled across the Pennsylvania countryside towards Harrisburg one night last week, a reporter from New York City sprawled out on the long seat at the back and started to drink. "Do you know what we're doing here?" he asked the television cameraman who was sharing the bottle of whiskey with him. "We're like a traveling minstel show, with no beginning, no conclusion. Oh, crap. Thirty-three straight days. No rest, no rest...
...busload of Wallace girls rolled by, and dozens of teenage faces peered out through the window and across the intervening darkness to the press bus. The reporters looked back and made rude gestures with their hands and yelled at the girls, and then settled back in their seats and waited for Harrisburg...
Traveling in the wake of Wallace's chaotic crusade, however, it's hard to become terribly worried about things like this. The hopelessness of reporting Wallace's one disorganized, idiotic speech in any way that would stop his complaining about the fancy eastern press is the first thing that makes traveling with him so odd. Wallace's famous hatred of the press, combined with the reporters' bemused contempt for Wallace, has created a strangely jocular atmosphere between the press and the candidate...
Wallace is very accessible on his plane, holding press conferences while sitting sideways on an airplane seat and pausing between sentences to suck on an orange in which he had nibbled a small hole, or just wandering around chatting like it was Clayton, Alabama, and he was still running for State Representative...
...maximum penalty on the charge of "assisting in an attempt at a prohibted border crossing" is five years in prison. The Associated Press reported that the two and a half months Miss Blueye has spent in jail while awaiting trial would be counted as part of her sentence...