Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cape Kennedy, Correspondents David Lee and Joseph Kane were joined by Senior Editor Peter Bird Martin and Contributing Editor Larry DuBois, who had flown down from New York to record firsthand impressions of the massive press, radio and TV coverage-and indeed share the feelings of the million or more other space watchers at the Cape during those awesome moments of blastoff...
...freedom and underground rebellion. They supplied their own typewriters, accepted salaries ranging downward from $80 a week-in the case of a dropout reporter from the Chicago Daily News, the remuneration of $7.25 for three weeks' work on an investigative story later picked up by the overground press...
Meanwhile he reopened the college, yielded on some student demands but rejected others. Always flamboyant and highly visible, he showed a gift for symbolism, appeared in a bright blue-and-red tam-o'-shanter, sometimes wore leis of flowers for press conferences, regularly delivered quotable and often provocative comments. Speaking of the day the first serious fighting occurred between police and students, he said, "This was the most exciting day of my life since my tenth birthday, when I rode a roller coaster for the first time." After he had become known statewide and was denounced by blacks...
...puts accused violators of Britain's narcotics laws in touch with lawyers and arranges for bail. From a four-room flat in London's Netting Hill Gate section, a staff of Release volunteers provides around-the-clock assistance. The agency advertises its phone number in the hippie press and at rallies organized to promote the legalizing of pot. It also circulates cards with advice to suspects. Example: "Request that any property taken from you is packaged and sealed in your presence," and "Be polite to police officers...
...peak of the movement there couldn't have been over a couple of thousand white northern kids actually living and working in the South. Secondly, that was all a long time ago. The Civil Rights workers were college students then. They've almost all (except for a few press-publicized movement "leaders") grown up and gotten married or something. They've drifted away. Hardly any of the new generation of rabble rousers have ever had anything to do with that meritorious Civil Rights Movement in the South...