Word: publishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feature review of the New York Times Book Review last Sunday was of Professor J. D. Watson's book, The Double Helix, it is perhaps not too late to comment on the action of the President and Fellows of Harvard College in forbidding the Harvard University Press to publish the book. It is my feeling that this action was unwarranted and constituted a serious infringement of academic freedom. I am not a biologist, nor am I in detail acquainted with the technical issues of the controversy: I base this judgment on general grounds...
...declaring that the U.S. had provoked the North Vietnamese. McNamara then released a highly condensed version of his testimony that was hotly criticized by Chairman J. William Fulbright on the grounds that it omitted anything that would damage the Administration's case. The committee's threat to publish the entire transcript prompted the Pentagon to release all but 250 censored words at week's end. Many questions about the incidents of August 1964 still remained unanswered, and many more were raised...
Before the end of the century, predicts Sanford, "the most prestigious colleges will forbid their professors to publish until they have been on the faculty five or even ten years." The only exception, he suggests, should be publication by television, in which a scholar "who has something important to say goes before cameras to say it in plain language to the general public...
...Chandler family has lost any interest in the company. Norman Chandler, 68, who had grown weary of the top job's demanding pace, moves to a less arduous post as chairman of the executive committee. His son Otis, who becomes vice chairman of the board, will continue to publish the Times-which has vastly improved under his regime. And at 40, Otis still has plenty of years left to become chairman himself...
Though he owns three small papers elsewhere in New England, he put his major effort into making a success of the Haverhill (Mass.) Journal. He started the paper in 1957, when the city's only other daily, the Gazette, was crippled by a strike. The Gazette continued to publish, but Loeb lured away its advertisers by offering them payments for long-term contracts. In 1965, after the Gazette sued Loeb for trying to put it out of business, a court ordered him to pay the Gazette $1,100,000; shortly after, he shut down the Journal...