Word: summered
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That feeling struck TIME Correspondent Thomas McCarroll the day he set out for a luncheon interview with William Simon at the financier's summer home on Long Island. It took McCarroll 75 minutes just to get off Manhattan Island. Then he found himself on an expressway covered with what seemed like "a million cars. By the time I reached Simon's home, he couldn't do the interview," says McCarroll. "I apologized profusely, blamed the traffic and apologized some more." Simon rescheduled the interview, but McCarroll's useless round trip, which should have taken four hours, consumed more than seven...
...journalistic profession has been shockingly backward in seeking out, hiring, training and promoting Negroes," declared President Johnson's National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. Laying some of the blame for the previous summer's inner-city race riots on the "white perspective" of the press, the 1968 report concluded, "The painful process of readjustment that is required of the American media must begin now." Last week many of the nation's top news executives attended the 13th annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists in St. Louis to assess the progress of minority journalists in the 20 years...
...Bruins return a solid team, under the guidance of Coach Terry O'Reilly. The Bruins may be considered one of the early National League favorites to dethrone the Edmonton Oilers after Wayne Gretzky made like the Oakland Raiders and left Edmonton this summer for warmer climes in Beverly Hills...
Demonstrating the commitment necessary to become leaders, approximately 25 Harvard-Radcliffe women cut their summer vacations short and came to school a week early to learn effective methods of leadership...
Because of an ongoing dispute between Harvard and the company that landscaped the Quad, the grass has not been mowed for most of the summer...