Word: pressroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...atmosphere is so ominous that the News now presents a fortress face to its public. Windows in the pressroom have been sealed off by brick and steel...
...minutes deciding Sirhan's fate. "I know he premeditated the murder with malice," said Broomis, "but I still thought the death penalty was too harsh." Four formal ballots were taken, but life imprisonment never received more than three votes. Finally, unanimity was achieved. George A. Stitzel, a pressroom foreman for the Los Angeles Times, reported later: "One item that was very important was the idea that we should stand behind our laws...
...wasting jurisdictional disputes, because there are no more jurisdictions. Printers help out stereotypers, stereotypers assist pressmen, pressmen lend the mailers a hand. Even reporters are called on to run copy and dirty their hands in the back shop. Hearst himself is in and out of the newsroom and the pressroom, sometimes answering the telephone or composing type. "He seems real happy with the job we're doing," says a reporter...
...thoughts and doings, Christian utters not one syllable more than the President wants him to. His main defensive weapon is simply to say that he is not going to talk about sensitive issues and then watch out for traps. Since he does not lose his temper, there are no pressroom incidents that get into the papers...
...liked to hang out with thugs; he had been strangled, not "karate chopped," and police suggested that homosexuality may have been a motive. Hunter was shot accidentally by an exhibitionistic detective he had known closely for years while the cop was clowning foolishly with a revolver in the station pressroom. As for Tom Howard, according to others who were there, he was not even at Ruby's apartment that night...