Word: wickham
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more, 55% of the country's 1,645 dailies still do not employ a single minority member in the newsroom. "Every year when roll call is made, there are only incremental increases in the number of blacks in print and fewer and fewer in broadcasting," laments Columnist Dewayne Wickham, president of the 1,700- member N.A.B.J...
...both sides of the still heavily fortified Sino-Soviet frontier. The two- week trip was organized by the New York City-based National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. The delegation was led by former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Arthur Hartman and former U.S. Army Chief of Staff General John Wickham. The only journalist in the group was TIME Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott, who filed this report...
...Army is the first military branch to act on a Defense Department goal to reduce smoking to 25% throughout the military by 1990. The example starts at the top: Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, Army Secretary John Marsh and Army Chief of Staff John Wickham are all nonsmokers...
...first few times we smelled it," he remembers, "we called the fire department. We didn't know what it was." It is a strange, foul odor, not unlike the stench from a sodden box of cat litter. It reminds many of the women of home-permanent solution. Karen Wickham, who teaches at the town's elementary school, thinks the smell is like "fecal matter, but also sweet and fruity," and Mary Lou Smith detects an onion aroma. "What it is," says Kenneth Vaniter, "is a take-your-breath-away smell...
...yucky in the lunchroom." Nauseated children were being sent home early. One day in November he evacuated the whole school, all 21 students. "The wind died down, and the odors got so darn bad. The fumes started rolling into our classrooms, more than we'd ever experienced before. Mrs. Wickham, the other teacher here, said she couldn't continue, I was already sick, and it was hard to breathe." School was closed for two days...