Word: pressroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also masterminded Lady Bird's raft ride down the Rio Grande last spring. She persuaded park rangers to abandon their headquarters so that it could serve as a pressroom. She checked the river to make sure that there was enough water for rafting, placed privies at strategic sand bars along the route. For the benefit of anxious photographers, she launched the expedition under a full moon. And she exhorted the reporters: "The management of this trip is not responsible if these elaborate procedures fail to work. In that case, don't blame us. Just put the copy...
Here, Apathy. Montgomery's city administration invited reporters to attend King's demonstration. Officials distributed press kits pointing out the route of the march, granted special permission to take photographs inside the courthouse. A pressroom was set up in the Carnegie Library next door to the courthouse, with enough desks, telephones, coffee and doughnuts for everyone. When the time came for the march, city police provided a special protective escort for the Negroes...
...husband's reception room by a Harrisburg decorator. "Absolutely illegal," sniffed the auditor general, a Democrat, refusing to pay on grounds that she hadn't asked for sealed bids. "A bargain is a bargain, and politics is politics," retorted Mary in a note posted in the capitol pressroom. How right you both are, Governor Bill tactfully concluded and, since he may have to ante up himself, vetoed plans by CBS-TV to screen the draperies for its viewers...
...week. Pressmen's Union President Freeman Frazee tried to split the two struck papers by marching his men back to the Free Press but not to the News; the maneuver only further antagonized both papers, which bargain together, and Frazee's delegation was stopped by a padlocked pressroom door. Then Jimmy Hoffa put in his unsolicited 2? worth. If the papers could somehow publish without pressmen, said the Teamster boss, the truck drivers would deliver them...
...broadcasting occasional bulletins in Swahili. Just 60 seconds after the Pope's death, U.P.I, carried a flash to all its U.S. clients: POPE DEAD. A.P., whose man on the phone tipped over backward in his swivel chair when he heard the words "E morte!" from the Vatican pressroom, still managed to fire off a bulletin two minutes later...