Word: raskin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many campaigns that it is difficult for a serious candidate to find a seasoned staff without including some of them. Examples: New York Democratic National Committeeman John F. English and former Massachusetts Democratic State Chairman Lester Hyman are working for Senator Edmund Muskie. Former John Kennedy Campaign Organizer Hy Raskin is on Washington Senator Henry Jackson's unofficial campaign staff. At the same time, such key Kennedy operatives as Ted Sorensen and Kenneth O'Donnell have not jumped in to help McGovern -or anyone else...
...triple jump, a relatively rare event, went to Harvard's Kevin Benjamin with a mark of 45'91/2". Terry Powlis was third in the event. Ed Nosal was far out in front winning the 35-1b. weight throw, and Tom Raskin and Baskauskas were the top two varsity pole valuators...
...words are not those of some member of the Nixon Administration but of a working newsman, the assistant editorial-page editor of the New York Times. When A.H. Raskin wrote them three years ago, he suggested that newspapers combat their smugness by appointing ombudsman-like editors to investigate readers' complaints. The suggestion has been largely ignored by U.S. newspapers, including Raskin's own. But at least two papers-the jointly owned Louisville Courier-Journal and Times -have tried...
Grandfatherly John Herchenroeder, 62, a former city editor, was appointed ombudsman at the Louisville papers only a few weeks after Raskin's idea appeared in the New York Times Magazine. Since then he has handled complaints from nearly 1,500 readers. Some have resulted in corrections under a standing headline, BEG YOUR PARDON. Some have persuaded the paper to run new stories. Many upset readers have been satisfied simply with a chance to talk to someone in authority...
Coffin, Ferber, Goodman, and Spock were convicted in June, 1968. Raskin was acquitted. However, a Federal appeals court later set aside the convictions, directing that Ferber and Spock be acquitted and that Coffin and Goodman be given now trials...