Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reporters covering the bloody battles for Hills 881 near the Viet Nam Demilitarized Zone got little cooperation from the Marines. In some cases, Marine officers actually barred them from the battlefield. The reporters filed the usual protests, expected the usual excuses. Instead, last week, they received a remarkably candid apology from Marine Commander Lieut. General Lewis W. Walt. "It has been brought to my attention," he wrote, "that your efforts to report the recent battle near Khe Sanh were seriously hampered and even ignored by some of my Marines in responsible positions. The lack of briefings, transportation, freedom of movement...
Atoms in Oysters. One group of European scientists used a unique, electronically assisted telescope to search for quarks among cosmic-ray particles that strike the earth. The Russians report that a quark-hunting cosmic-ray experiment was carried aboard their Proton 3 satellite. Neither venture was successful. Other scientists have suggested the use of radio telescopes for discovering evidence of quarks produced in highly energetic radio galaxies and starlike quasars...
Question: Can a book that is obviously destined to be a bestseller be all bad? Answer: Yes. Irving Wallace (The Man, The Prize, The Chapman Report) runs through several plots in The Plot: the Kennedy assassination, a defrocked diplomat's attempt to prove himself innocent of accusations of treason, an ex-President's struggle to uphold his fading reputation, an exiled party girl's scheme to re-enter her native England, a down-and-out reporter's comeback attempt. By a stretch of imagination no greater than Wallace's, Dwight Eisenhower, Christine Keeler, Alger Hiss...
While a Master, Finley has been a dominant figure not only in shaping the House system but also in formulating the College's general education program. He served on the original committee which wrote General Education in a Free Society, the report that set the broad outlines for the College's first Gen Ed courses. Finley was vice-chairman of the committee and was one of the major authors of its report...
...would like to give the University another chance to recognize the Crafts Maintenance Council before going out," Robert Richardson, president of the BGMA, said last night. He said that his men would report for work today, but that if the University does not offer to recognize the Crafts Maintenance Council "soon" a strike will be called. "Soon" could mean today, tomorrow or next week, Richardson said. "It all depends on the University," he added...