Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democratic Senator Wayne Morse cunningly pasted a rider on the higher-education aid bill that, if passed, would grant home rule to the District of Columbia. In the midst of a conflagrant and confused debate over amendments to the antipoverty bill, Morse charged that "not 20 of you have read" the Senate committee's report on the bill's amendments. Most ob servers thought his figure was high...
...Weltner further outraged Southern racists last year by initiating a House Un-American Activities Committee investigation of the Ku Klux Klan. His resignation from the race prompted hundreds of tributes from across the U.S., including a telegram from a non-Georgian that read: "I never heard of you. Now I will never forget...
...support of the U.S. position in Viet Nam, Wilson was booed by Britniks as he read the New Testament lesson in a Brighton church, but the most bitter criticism came from trade unionists within his party. They argued that the whole labor movement would die if unions no longer had the right to bargain for higher wages. Six hundred auto workers massed outside Wilson's hotel in Brighton. "Wilson, you traitor!" they shouted. Inside the Labor conference, Frank Cousins, the boss of Britain's biggest union, the Transport and General Workers, fumed defiance. "We shall...
...camera. Even more important, he says, everything the viewer sees and hears comes to him on what amounts to an electronic front page. What the managing editor chooses for him, he cannot avoid. He cannot skip from headline to headline and browse among stories. They are all read aloud, right to the end. "There are no back pages in our kind of journalism," says Cronkite. Everything is up front where it cannot be overlooked...
...that the Hollywood version of the networks is quite correct. I called CBS executives all day long and couldn't reach a single one. The order was out to all secretaries that no one wanted to talk to me." It was small consolation to open his mail and read one brief letter: "Jack Paar won't be as good as you. I know-I'm his mother...