Word: scooped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrat John McClellan's Senate Subcommittee on Investigations. The group was looking into McNamara's choice of General Dynamics Corp. for a $6 billion-plus contract to build a new fighter aircraft, the TFX, for the Air Force and the Navy. Washington's Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson had called Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell Gilpatric to explain that the voters back home-who will get a crack at Jackson next year-expected an investigation, since Seattle-based Boeing Airplane had lost the contract. But Jackson said the probe would be brief and friendly...
Born. To Washington State's Senator Henry Martin ("Scoop") Jackson, 50, the U.S. Senate's most eligible bachelor until his 1961 marriage, and Helen Hardin Jackson, 29: their first child, a daughter; in Washington...
Died. Sir Bruce Ingram, 85, working editor since 1900 of Britain's Illustrated London News; of a heart attack; in Chesham, Buckinghamshire. Given a trial as editor of the well-bred journal his grandfather began in 1842, Ingram established himself at the age of 23 with an unparalleled scoop of Queen Victoria's funeral; he stationed 24 artists along the route to Windsor Castle, matched their drawings into 24 double-truck spreads and hit the newsstands within three days. Said Ingram, when photography replaced the sketches, and sepia-tinted rotogravure became the News's trademark: "A pity...
...signed up a fellow villager, Jürgen Wagner, 22, to take the wheel. Eight days before Christmas, the pair began the feverish preparations in Weidner's garage. First Weidner and Wagner attached a heavy snowplow to the front of the bus, not to plow snow, but to scoop away the heavy obstacles they knew awaited them at roadblocks ahead...
...their article, In Time of Crisis, Alsop and Bartlett claim to give the public an inside scoop on the high-level deliberations which led to key decisions during the crisis. Their facts are wrong and their interpretations are grossly oversimplified, but worst of all they discuss the supposedly confidential positions taken by Stevenson and others at National Security Council meetings. The article quotes an anonymous official as saying: "Adlai wanted a Munich.... He wanted to trade Turkish and British missile bases for Cuban bases...