Word: scheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gang all pitched in and worked harder than they ever had before. Even in bankruptcy they managed to publish three issues of the magazine, each one on time (unheard of for the gang!), each less irresponsible and hysterical than the last. "We're less campy," says Editor Bob Scheer, "and less smartass. There's more emphasis on research and getting the facts. We've increased our range-music, the arts, and so forth...
...next three years. The judge said, well, you guys seem to be doing pretty well as far as I'm concerned. So you're back on your own. As we leave the Ramparts Boys, we find them back in the clubhouse happily pecking at their typewriters. Editor Scheer exults: "We did the impossible." But tune in to our next exciting episode...
...showdown came last month, when Haney and Head Astronaut Deke Slayton collided over whether or not the press could witness a lunar-landing practice session. Slayton won, and four days later NASA's chief public affairs officer, Julian Scheer, gave Haney the news: he was to lose his voice job and accept a special post out of harm's way in Washington. Haney flatly refused the new job, describing the proposed move "like being kicked out of the game on the two-yard line after coming 98 yards down the field." Scheer quickly accepted his resignation...
...Democratic convention, recalls Managing Editor Robert Scheer, "there we were, all staying at the Ambassador Hotel in Chicago, while the movement kids were getting their skulls cracked...
...Biased. Hinckle readily concedes that Ramparts stories are "totally and absolutely and joyfully biased. We went in to hang the CIA. We went in to hang the Saigon government, to kill the war in Vietnam. That's what political journalism is all about." But he complains, as does Scheer, that the magazine has paid dearly for its opinionated independence. Stories on Black Power, Barry Goldwater and the CIA all led to cancellations of advertising. So did an editorial that took an almost neutral, rather than pro-Israel stance on the Arab-Israeli war. "You have madness in publishing...