Word: punch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...totally preoccupied with the war-and with his pursuit of peace. He sits in his office, fists clenched in front of him to illustrate his aims to aides. "I told McNamara that he's my righthand punch," he says. "I told him to take the power of this country and with it keep our word and our honor and protect the lives of our boys to the maximum extent possible. I told Rusk and Goldberg that they're my lefthand punch...
While Mrs. Schiff and her fellow publishers bargain for the chance to introduce this kind of computer, the Los Angeles Times, for one, has already moved a step beyond. For a brief period it experimented with machines that allowed reporters to punch out their own tapes as they wrote their stories. The machines rebelled against the reporters' hunt-and-peck typing, and the reporters rebelled against the machines. Now a bank of typists makes tapes from reporters' copy...
Fold It? The target was the liberal afternoon New York Post (circ. 337,556). Publisher Dorothy ("Dolly") Schiff, 62, who has been increasingly concerned over the paper's financial condition, installed a punch-tape IBM computer that can automatically prepare edited copy at the rate of better than 2,000 lines an hour-theoretically ten times faster than a journeyman Linotypist. After experimenting with it on a dry-run basis, Mrs. Schiff last week ordered the machine into operation. The union balked, and Bertram Powers, single-minded president of the International Typographical Union Local No. 6, laid down...
...quite a conversation piece: people "have been talking happily about him, singing his praises, debating about their favorite pieces, planning branches of The New Tom Wolfe Fan Club." Well, people have been talking unhappily about him, too, lampooning his literary mannerisms and planning branches of the Let's Punch Tom Wolfe in His Southern Snoot Club. But even readers who dis like Wolfe's flamboyant, exaggerated style and who feel that he has less than a firm regard for facts agree that there are few other writers today who have so mordant a sense of the ridiculous...
...sport; in Washington, Senator John Tower called for a Congressional investigation. But fix and fraud are not synonymous. The truth was simply that a big, tough, fast young boxer hit a woozy old stiff in the face. Nobody will ever be sure just how hard Cassius Clay's punch was, but it was hard enough to make Sonny Liston call it a payday...