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Counterattack. Soon after Hoiles took over, the evening News reversed its longtime policy, began to squawk "socialism" at many programs that had widespread support among business and professional leaders. In quick succession the paper 1) helped defeat a proposal to fluoridate the city water, 2) successfully opposed a municipal parking project to relieve downtown congestion, 3) cold-shouldered a fund drive for the community-backed convalescent home, and 4) denounced the city council's plans to replace a 50-year-old public library. The News's editorials on the library issue finally jolted civic leaders into counterattacking with...
...then critical Hungarian and Middle East crises. How could anyone say that there was no risk in the world? asked Wilson sharply. "My friends in the Chamber of Commerce." he snapped, "represent some of the richest people in the country. They have never been so prosperous. For them to squawk so much about the budget gives me a pain...
...spare patients and staff the insistent, nerve-racking clangor of bells or "squawk boxes" long used to summon doctors, St. Thomas' Hospital in London adopted some helpful gadgetry. Hooked up to a magnetic loop surrounding the hospital is a transmitter rigged for 56 different frequencies, with one assigned to each staff doctor. When he is wanted, a porter presses the right button, the magnetic impulses actuate a receiver in the doctor's breast pocket so that it gives a discreet "ping, ping," clearly audible to him, not disturbing to others...
...friendly gesture. Reporter Fortman sent the Baltimore Sun carbons of his series in advance, in case it wanted to print what its correspondent had been sending home. Seeing the first batch, the Sun let out a pained squawk that could be heard from Miami to Moscow. The paper not only felt entitled to its correspondent's full services but feared that its investment in setting up Moscow coverage would be jeopardized if the Russians got the notion that Norton was breaking censorship. The Herald had already run the first installment. But after the Sun called the Miami paper...
...clock every night in Paris, the trucks are jammed into every narrow street from the Opera to the Louvre. Horns squawk, cops shout, taxi drivers curse and take long detours, but nothing helps until 9 o'clock the next morning when the trucks roar away. The noisy, redolent center of this nightly hubbub, and its cause, is Les Halles Centrales, Paris' central food market...