Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report: "Harvard's Riesman rightly sneers at the spectacle of '150 Avises trying to become a Hertz.' " The quote is out of context; no sneerer, I was discussing how the many upwardly mobile institutions were raising faculty salaries and making recruitment difficult for the less affluent. I was not disparaging academic entrepreneurship, as my sympathy for Gould's ambitions should make clear...
Coming from the bridge, that seemed a peculiarly euphoric position report. Even the modest program of social reform that Johnson outlined faces-as he knows only too well-serious trouble getting safely through a restive, frugally inclined Congress...
President Johnson is as ebullient in manner as he is expansive in vision. It was no doubt a difficult exercise for him to stand before Congress and deliver a report card on the nation's past performance and future prospects that was somber in tone and spare in content...
...that several oldtimers would retire, among them Flanker McGee, a star for twelve years. But the biggest conjecture of all concerned Coach Lombardi, who in nine years has turned the Packers from the patsies of the N.F.L. into the most successful team in pro football history. One report had Lombardi giving up coaching but retaining his Green Bay general manager's job; another had him heading a syndicate to buy the A.F.L.'s New York Jets; still another had him giving up football altogether. "I'm exhausted," was all Vince himself would say. "I just want...
...into the sun. As a result, their retinas were so badly burned that all six became totally blind. Authority for the story was Norman M. Yoder, 53, commissioner of the Office for the Blind in Pennsylvania's Department of Public Welfare. He stood by it after his informal report to Washington got out. A state senator and Governor Raymond P. Shafer backed it up at news conferences. The six, said Yoder, were all getting state...