Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...primarily responsible for coordinating this technical feat is Donald Bermingham of TIME'S News Bureau, who takes second place to none when it comes to obtaining both information and cooperation. Bermingham, a veteran of eight previous national conventions, and his staff started months ago arranging facilities for TIME people, booking rooms and, finally, producing TIME'S own directory to pivotal action centers. Still, says Bermingham, "the last few days before the convention were excruciating." Reason: typewriters are worth their weight in gold in reporter-filled Miami, but TIME'S supplier had not come through with the ordered...
...communications with the ghetto. Blacks from New Orleans slums listened blankly to lectures on their problems from league staffers at workshops organized during the convention. "We've got to realize that we're not middle class at all," confessed Lonnie King of the Health, Education and Welfare staff in Atlanta, "but black...
...that "only when, we have successfully accomplished the general offensive and general uprising will the negotiations demonstrate their significance, which consists of creating conditions for the enemy to accept final defeat and withdraw in an 'honorable' manner." In the U.S., government policy planners have done hardly any staff work on the actual nuts-and-bolts details of a settlement cease-fire arrangements, means of inspection for troop withdrawals, stages of reducing the fighting. One reason for the lack stems from the realization that such wargaming would probably become known and would add to the uneasiness that already besets...
...ballad was the work of KRLA's "staff poet-singer," Len Chandler, who regularly performs his own tendentious commentary to the most dramatic news of the hour. Chandler's verses are just one of the innovations by the staff of KRLA Station Manager John Barrett, 35, which have given an otherwise ordinary rock station a young audience of more than 1,500,000 and put it in the top three among the 61 stations jamming the metropolitan Los Angeles airwaves...
...Totals." Sample rundown: "Three dead in traffic. One death by gunfire. Dow-Jones industrials down 4.93. The Dodgers now 23 ½ games out of first place. The Angels 16 games. Those refusing Army induction: six. Marijuana arrests: 20. High today: 82." KRLA's 14-man news staff is youthful (average age: 29) and happily, rarely takes itself very seriously. Once an announcer closed with "This has been KRLA news. For all the news, listen to KNX, KFWB or read a newspaper." Spoofing traffic reporting, KRLA claims to have hired a barrage-balloon pilot who always seems to get lost...