Word: scooped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Siren Song. Where was everyone? Well, Washington Democrat "Scoop" Jackson was at home dedicating a new forest service laboratory. New Mexico Democrat Clinton Anderson was in Albuquerque powwowing with state Indian organizations. Utah's Senators, Democrat Frank Moss and Republican Wallace Bennett, were at the annual conference of the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City. Nebraska Republican Roman Hruska was in Omaha at state Republican Founders Day ceremonies. "When the siren song of politics calls," said one Senate aide, "they can't resist...
...State, Rowan continued to speak out. At the height of a furor over management of news by Government officials, Rowan urged newsmen to keep "responsible pressure" on those bureaucrats who are "scared to death of the press." But at the same time, said Rowan, too many newsmen are "scoop conscious" and "far more concerned about their reputations than about how well informed the American public is." When the House Subcommittee on Government Information criticized Rowan as "an official with an admitted distrust for the people's right to know," Rowan called the committee report "maliciously misleading," and added...
...have dovetailed nicely into less somber editorial projects. When Crown Prince Akihito sailed on his first overseas tour, Tokyo's Mainichi Shimbun (circ. 3,800,000) sent along a photographer and four birds; one brought a royal picture home from 250 miles at sea for a front-page scoop. Wings beat for Mainichi again when U.S. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall climbed Mount Fuji in 1961. Halfway to the summit, a cameraman released two pigeons which covered the 70 air miles to Tokyo just in time for the evening edition. The Mainichi flock scored its latest coo last October, flying...
...fast enough across a busy freight yard, relieved himself in a gondola car-where a load of steel plates suddenly shifted, crushing his leg. That same year, the Court took up the case of a ship's baker who had grabbed a sharp knife instead of a scoop to serve hard ice cream and lost two fingers when the knife slipped. In both cases, the Supreme Court decided for the injured...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21--An important scoop on the civil rights bill was among the unexpected rewards picked up by the eight Harvard lobbyists for John W. Perdew '64 in their conversations with Congressmen, here today...