Word: stand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hundreds of men and women are responsible for the presentation of TV news, and any selection of an "elite" (in Spiro Agnew's phrase) is necessarily arbitrary. Still, a few men stand out at the top of the profession, including the twelve, some familiar and some not, who are identified below...
...MONUMENT. Eventually it became clear that we would have to stop, because we couldn't move much further. Somewhere on the side of the hill we sat down. The Monument rose on our left. A lot of people nearby had to stand. Some of them were very friendly; some were aloof. On the stage, wherever that was, Dick Gregory spoke, and later Arlo Guthrie spoke and sang. Soon someone started speechifying. We tuned out. We ate the best apple God ever made, and we passed eggs and cookies too. A friendly, crazy old man handed us a canteen of "cold...
...whose voice we hear: "This is Radio Paris at Le Bourget . . ." Ae she moves into the crowd welcoming Andre Jurieu, France's latest aviation hero, the camera follows her. But the clarity of Renoir's usual tracks is gone. In the darkness of the shot only people's faces stand out; its closeness, and its high angle, let little more than the announcer and her microphone appear...
...five Weathermen arrested were Mark S. Gedal, William L. Geogran, Philip C. Nies, Henry A. Olson, and James H. Reeves. They will stand trial December 3 in Cambridge's Third District Court...
...Mann and five of the 23 other Weathermen will stand trial next Wednesday in Third District Court on charges stemming from the disruption of Harvard's Center for International Affairs on September 25. The five are Nies, Olson, Reeves, Susan Hagedorn, and Jill H. Wattenburg...