Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...William McWhirter. The occasion: Getty had just endowed a $50,000 prize through the World Wildlife Fund, for outstanding service to conservation. The place: Getty's vast Tudor manor, Sutton Place, 25 miles from London. Its spacious gardens and lawns are surrounded by double fences covered with barbed wire and are patrolled by plain-clothes guards along with 25 German shepherd attack dogs. McWhirter's report...
...Reno courtroom last week, U.S. District Court Judge Bruce R. Thompson left absolutely no doubt about his low opinion of the Government's case. "The worst criminal pleading I've ever encountered," he snapped. With that, Thompson dismissed charges of stock manipulation, conspiracy, wire fraud and other offenses brought against Billionaire Howard Hughes and four co-defendants for their part in a successful effort from June 1968 to April 1970 to acquire the foundering Air West airline (now Hughes Air West). Thompson, regarded as a tough but fair-minded judge, found no clear criminal activity in the indictment...
...Government to be overtaken by a mass assault on the presidency ... we cannot have a convulsion in the greatest nation in the world." Meeting 19 Southern and Border State Democrats, Nixon repeated: "It's unthinkable that I will resign. I'll fight it right down to the wire...
Within hours, Goldwater and Meet the Press viewers were on the phone to the Post, pointing out the error. The damage had been partially contained: both the A.P. and U.P.I, wire services carried correct references to Truman as Goldwater's "best President" in their stories. Even the L.A. Times ignored its own news service dispatch for a story based on wire service coverage. But a number of major papers across the country did run the blooper-with follow-up corrections-including the Chicago Sun-Times, Denver Post, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Louisville Courier-Journal, Boston Globe and New York Post...
...scoops come infrequently, and more often the newsmen are morbidly conventional, afraid that their leads will be different from the AP's stolid interpretation and so invoke their editors's reproaches. They surround wire reporter Walter Mears at his typewriter, then bandy about the chosen angle of the story, afraid to take chance...