Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Warren Commission report, which said that Oswald had acted alone, was not admitted as evidence in the hearing after Judge Bernard Bagert said it was "fraught with hearsay...
...Roberts' subjective appraisal: Johnson "was the coolest man in Dallas, or aboard Air Force One." Even on inconsequential details, Roberts finds fault with Death. He says that the book used for Johnson's swearing-in was not John Kennedy's personal Bible, as Manchester and others report, but a small missal, which perhaps had never even been opened by Kennedy. The book subsequently disappeared...
...three, when the sheriff of Sedgwick County, Kans., deputized him during a visit and won young Specter fleeting fame in Ripley's Believe It or Not. In 1964, as one of the youngest (he was then 34) investigators with the Warren Commission, Specter developed the report's cental "single-bullet" theory of the Kennedy assassination. Then, back in Philadelphia, Specter shifted political allegiance from liberal Democrat to liberal Republican, won handily in the 1965 race for district attorney to become the city's first major G.O.P. victor in a dozen years. Last week Specter took...
...processed, fish flour is virtually odorless and tasteless, and Interior Department researchers report that it blends well in soups, noodles, gravy, bread-even cookies and milk shakes. Even so, FDA Commissioner James L.Goddard insists that the individual consumer must be free to determine for himself whether he wants this new product in his diet. Sale in the U.S. will be permitted only in 1-lb. packages, which is expected to make it too complicated and expensive for food manufacturers to use.The ban on bulk distribution will not apply to exports...
...semi-annual report on U.S. foreign-currency operations, Coombs explained that the largest factor in sterling's recovery has been "the underlying improvement" in Britain's pound-threatening balance-of-payments deficit. Though the British ran a deficit for the whole of 1966 (probably between $420 million and $560 million), rising exports produced a balance-of-payments surplus during the final three months of the year. This year, says a forecast from London's National Institute for Economic and Social Research, Britain should show an impressive $490 million surplus, its first since...