Word: royko
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...newspapermen weren't listening. Mike Royko, a columnist for the Chicago Daily News. had the Weathermen pegged as aristocratic dilettantes. "They spoke a combination of Negro slang, greaser jargon, and Marxist slogans, which is a bit hard to do if you have a Ph.D. in Anthropology and your father is a stockbroker...
Blurred Vision. In the Daily News, Columnist Mike Royko gently needled Mabley's pitch for big money. "I don't want to feel completely left out," Royko wrote. "That's why I am starting a noninflationary, low-cost fund drive of my very own. About $600 or $700 will do the trick." It is needed, he said, by Roy Ries Jr., a Presbyterian seminarian who had tried to avoid violence by standing with other clergymen between police and demonstrators. Ries, Royko claims, received a fractured skull and still has blurred vision from a rifle-butt blow...
Last Word. Walker found instant support. "It is an excellent document," said Jay Miller, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Illinois division. Wrote Chicago Daily News Columnist Mike Royko: "Those policemen who did not bash private citizens showed great restraint. Not only did they restrain themselves from hitting citizens, they also restrained themselves from restraining the policemen who hit the citizens." But William Campbell, chief judge of the U.S. district court in Chicago, suggested that Walker's staff had worked hastily, heedless of an investigation by a grand jury that he had appointed. The grand...
...course, Nixon can hardly expect the sniping to cease altogether while he gets his bearings. Chicago Daily News Columnist Mike Royko mocked Nixon for having won a "mand," or "about half a mandate." A mand, Royko wrote, means something to the effect that "We've got to hire somebody for the job, so it might as well be you. But try not to mess things up, huh?" Drew Pearson, an inveterate Nixonphobe, tried to be considerably more damaging with a story-given in a speech rather than a column-that Nixon visited a psychiatrist some years ago because...
While other correspondents were counting delegates, Chicago Daily News Columnist Mike Royko was tallying the prostitutes. Despite the Republican Party's dedication to law and order, said Royko, only one of the girls had been pinched, legally. Said an aide to the Miami Beach police chief: "We have not had a single complaint, so their service must be satisfactory." Agnes Ash of Women's Wear Daily noted the plight of Ben Novack, owner of the Hotel Fontainebleau. "The Republicans aren't spending any money," he groused. "I'm not making a dime out of this convention...