Word: roystering
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...Farber and the Times last week seemed to be losing friends even in the press. Washington Post Columnist Haynes Johnson wrote: "All those high-sounding statements about journalistic integrity and courageously protecting news sources in defense of the Constitution now appear compromised." Warned former Wall Street Journal Editor Vermont Royster: "Not the least of the risks we run in raising the banner of the First Amendment on every occasion is of appearing arrogant to the people...
...Panama Canal. Says a senior State Department official: "Nowhere is it written that you have to have a Georgia Tech degree to run the canal. The canal is damned important economically to the Panamanians. It is their only natural resource, and they will take care of it." Writes Vermont Royster, former editor of the Wall Street Journal: "For us, the canal is at most one adjunct to commerce and defense. For Panama, the canal is vital; the closing of the canal would be a disaster...
...baboon liver, she made spontaneous movements and showed normal reflexes. After 13½ hours, she spoke; in two weeks she was walking. Although it took three months of intensive hospital treatment to make her fully healthy again, she is now back at school. The second patient, Mrs. Yvonne Royster, 24, had a similar experience; seven months after treatment, say the doctors, "she was in excellent health looking after her children and working as a part-time waitress...
...patina of intellectuality, and a listing of almost all the outhouse and bawdyhouse four-letter verbs gives it a salty flavor. To comb out the neologisms and solecisms, the editors consulted a usage panel of 104 unpaid judges, mainly journalists and other writers. Among them: Russell Baker, Vermont Royster, Red Smith and Dwight Macdonald. The wisdom of this move, apart from the publicity it brought the book, became apparent with the rave reviews that followed, some of them by panelists...
Agnew's views continued to draw considerable sympathy. The San Francisco Examiner editorialized: "It's high time somebody else started getting headlines besides the yippies, bomb-throwers and the disruptive critics of every traditional American value." Vermont Royster, editor of the Wall Street Journal, bemoaned the fact that Agnew had drawn no praise for being in the company of critics like Jefferson, and added: "All of which leads to the melancholy conclusion that the press can dish it out but quivers when it's dished back...