Word: scranton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commission, which will be funded by the Office of Management and Budget, also includes Lane Kirkland, executive vice president of the AFL-CIO, television journalist Bill Moyers, former Pennsylvania Gov. William Scranton and Phillip Handler, president of the National Academy of Sciences...
...this time, in Harrisburg, Lieut Governor William Scranton III expressed alarm that he might be getting inaccurate reports from plant officials. He told reporters: "This situation is more complex than the company first led us to believe. Metropolitan Edison has given you and us conflicting information." Indeed federal investigators from the nearby headquarters of the NRC in King of Prussia reported later in the day that radio activity had been detected as far as 16 miles from the plant, and claimed that radiation within the reactor containment building had risen to a startling 1,000 times its normal level...
...Scranton, Pa., where somebody evidently slipped Washington Post Reporter Nancy Collins parts of H.R. Haldeman's The Ends of Power fresh from the bindery, life was pretty much back to normal last week. The network cameras had departed. Law enforcement officials had received no complaints of wrongdoing, and did not intend to solicit any. Collins seemed to have had her fill of notoriety and, at the end of a week spent mostly in ducking interviews, said: "This is all very nice, but I've got stories...
...profits of future Haldemans -and worthier authors-may indeed be crimped as a consequence of the Scranton caper. "This will blow the syndication market to hell," says Roger Straus Jr., president of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Straus predicts that newspapers and magazines will now lower the amounts they are willing to pay for reprint rights. Even at the Post, William B. Dickinson Jr., head of the company's syndicate and book publishing arm, frets: "There's a question of whether there's a balance evolving in favor of public disclosure, as opposed to copyright and property right...
Have newspapers really learned a lesson in Scranton, or will they all come running the next time a big book is up for sale? That time is here, and the book is Richard Nixon's memoirs, to be published in May by Grosset & Dunlap. The Times Syndicate also has Nixon in tow; and reports that it has signed some 50 publications in the U.S. and abroad. So far, none have backed out as a result of the Haldeman fiasco. Though security precautions are said to be even tighter than for, the Haldeman book, New York magazine last week disclosed...