Word: rootstock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this scene, every midmorning, arrives the Buffalo Evening News's editor, Alfred Henry Kirchhofer-an austere, bony-cheeked man of 67 in rimless glasses and a dark blue suit. He looks much like Woodrow Wilson, a resemblance not fancied by Kirchhofer, who, like his paper, is a lifelong, rootstock Republican. Two feet six inches away from Kirchhofer's desk a visitor's chair is bolted to the floor; that is as close as Kirchhofer wants anyone to approach. Before long a flurry of blue memos pours from his desk to every department. Sensing the news possibilities...
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