Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...businessmen and journalists who gathered around the large coffin-shaped table in the Cabinet Room of the White House last week had just returned from a Time Inc. -sponsored News Tour of the Far East. They had come to report their observations and reactions to President Nixon - and the President and his guests questioned each other intently about the problems of Asia. From firsthand observation, the travelers were able to talk of the fighting in Viet Nam, trade difficulties with Japan, sniping across the DMZ in Korea, Communist insurgency in Thailand. Looking back, most of them agreed that perhaps...
...music circuit, had their own radio show, and were rediscovered by pop America for their background music that was very much in the foreground of Bonnie and Clyde. Now Flatt, 54, and Scruggs, 45, have announced they are breaking up the act. Just why, they would not say. Friends report that the two have never been close, and now that both are well off financially, they see no reason to stick together. Said one acquaintance: "They have come to hate each other's guts...
...memoirs. They are tempted to tell everything, "just as it happened." The streaming flaming narrative does lend flesh, bone, and color as the press blurb promises; it also jumbles events into a sequence as confusing as living it the first time through. The fine-honed skeleton of the Cox Report may stiffen in its structured divisions and categories, creak in its outline, but it does throw critical events into prominence and leave others in the gloom where they belong...
Both History and Social Studies allow tutors to have change of the junior tutorials they conduct and to report grades for their students. For some reason, Government has set up a committee unfamiliar with a student's tutorial to judge whether he should receive a different grade then his tutor recommends, and to make that decision on the basis of a ten-page paper which could at best represent only a portion of his tutorial work. Giving responsibility to tutors would be a more complete remedy for the arbitrary grading in Gov 98 then the partial measure the department...
...report's most specific proposal centered on a revision of Astronomy 101 ("Observational Astronomy"). Expansion of the present half-course format, more fully coordinated with Physics 112, would "permit students a grasp of the range of astrophysical phenomena and a reasonably advanced physical and mathematic level," the report said...