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These horses will have a host of stable-boys, in the form of delegates and media types who will predictably pander to their every need, all the while carrying out a self-fabricated race of their own, for the big "scoop" or the nearest urinal. They will wear buttons extolling their favorite horse--or the only horse, as the case...
...time to see the policemen return to the station. The desk sergeant says come back tomorrow, no information available, still in booking process, details in the morning, can't help you. But two officers who had just been shot at watch the reporter as he comes out; "want a scoop?" they asked, "Get in the back...
...Democratic Senator Adlai Stevenson of Illinois offered an amendment to an Israeli aid bill that would have withheld $150 million of the $785 million in economic grants to Israel until Jerusalem imposed a moratorium on new settlements. The measure was defeated 85 to 7. A day before, Senator Henry (Scoop) Jackson, the Washington Democrat who has long been one of Israel's best friends in Congress, told the Washington Star that Prime Minister Menachem Begin had lost some American support by "taking an intransigent position" on the settlements...
Many of CNN's 60 on-camera people were plucked from local stations and are younger and less experienced than their network rivals. CNN President Reese Schonfeld does not expect to scoop NBC, CBS and ABC regularly. "We'll just bring the news to you faster," he says. "We have time to play it and they don't." Though the revolving set in CNN's Atlanta studio was designed by Ron Baldwin, who has done sets for the nets, Turner's news will not be as slickly produced or as visually elaborate as the network...
...York agreed. Said he: "To choose between the two of them [Carter and Kennedy] is hardly going to help us put together a ticket that has a chance to win in November." Other Democrats have talked wistfully, but unrealistically, of drafting Vice President Walter Mondale. Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson of Washington, who was soundly trounced in the 1976 presidential primaries, has claimed that "people come up to me almost every day and say, 'I wish you were running...