Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Average Citizen. Who else could have watched, listened to, and read the events of 1967 without having rioted, smoked pot, sat in, become a hippie, took a trip, struck, or protested the war in Viet Nam? He was the real newsmaker. L. I. VARNEY Huntsville...
...quickest way to change Lyndon Johnson's mind about a high-level appointment is to predict who the man will be. In the case of a successor to Robert McNamara, newsmen and Washington officials alike were doubly leary of trying to read the President's mind. Even so, more than a few observers were warily-and hopefully-raising the name of Cyrus Roberts Vance, the former Deputy Defense Secretary whom Johnson had drafted for an arduous diplomatic assignment in Cyprus (see THE WORLD) well after Mc-Namara's departure was decided...
...York hierarchy was stunned by the choice of a little-known outsider; Boston's William Cardinal O'Connell, who had never much appreciated his rising young assistant, was simply chagrined. "Francis," he said, "epitomizes what happens to a bookkeeper when you teach him how to read." The comment was neither charitable nor accurate, but it did contain at least one grain of truth. In 28 years, Spellman put up the greatest mass of ecclesiastical building in history-well over $500 million for schools, churches and other institutions-earning for himself an unquestioned reputation as the church...
...production, is 36. Today the studios are frequently packagers, providing money and facilities for small, independent production teams-which naturally insist upon artistic control. These film makers are not necessarily American. Hollywood is bankrolling movies all over the globe, and the cast and crew of a film can sometimes read like the attendance list of a U.N. committee meeting...
...filling the news gap. Not only have the commercial stations increased their coverage but educational channel 56 got an unprecedented ten-week grant of $3,000 a week from the Ford Foundation for an evening news program. In a studio equipped with typewriters and telephones, Detroit Free Press staffers read and discuss the day's news. The program also includes editorials, book and movie reviews. As is usually the case when camera-shy newsmen go on TV they stumble over words but project an air of authenticity. Deplorable as the strike is, Detroit is about the only...