Word: wicker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wicker of the New York Times, Phil Potter of the Baltimore Sun and Douglas Kiker of the New York Herald Tribune were invited for a fish fry. Next morning Wicker was taken on a ride in the presidential Lincoln. Chauffeur: Lyndon B. Johnson. Velocity: up to 70 m.p.h. TIME'S Hugh Sidey got a chicken dinner and a boat ride up the lower Colorado River. Guide: Lyndon B. Johnson. The Restons' visit became practically a family outing. Learning that Reston's son Richard, a Washington correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, was in Austin, Johnson ordered Presidential...
...story and found room for nearly everything-including a separate appraisal of Lee Oswald's marksmanship as a marine (NOT A CRACK SHOT, ran the questionable headline). The Times assigned 40 men to the story in New York, sent six other reporters winging to the aid of Tom Wicker, who was in Dallas with the presidential party...
...Perspective premiered on New York's earnest educational TV station WNDT. It was a New York Times show all the way, starring the Times's autocratic Sunday Editor Lester Markel, and featuring the Times's Washington diplomatic correspondent, Max Frankel, and White House Correspondent Tom Wicker...
Seated in a cushioned wicker chair on his Hyannis Port lawn, the President of the U.S. submitted to a taped television interview by CBS's Walter Cronkite. Beforehand, presidential aides had suggested that Cronkite ask questions about the crisis in South Viet Nam. He did-and President Kennedy was ready with some remarkable replies...
...British that by comparison with her, even John Bull himself seems the son of a miscegenetic marriage. She is the fresh-air fiend in sensible shoes who parries with her nose and charges with her chin. She likes to scrunch into wicker chairs and sniff sea air. She has average tastes, nonexotic pleasures. Every day at precisely 11 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.-right in the middle of a movie set, if that's where she happens to be-she has hot milk and buttered biscuits. She needs this sustenance as much as a lush needs booze...