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...solos varied in quality, with several striking performances among them. In his shining green and white shirt, Michael Russell took hold of one's soul with his dramatic version of "I Found God." The choir smoothly changed the tempo with "Keys to the Kingdom," and Evelyn Woodward picked up the fast, rocking beat in her solo. A better sound system, however, would have helped even the best of the soloists...
...Bagdikian points out that "there have been more societies destroyed by the undisclosed corruption or incompetence of leaders than by any demoralization that comes from disclosure." Says a relaxed George Reedy, dean of Marquette University's journalism school: "For a while every reporter was out to be Woodward and Bernstein. Ten years ago, it was Tom Wolfe and participatory journalism. Fifteen or 20 years ago, it was James Reston. The fads come...
...press mishandled or manipulated, comparing what appeared in the papers and on television with what he considers the objective truth. Not surprisingly, given Epstein's original bias, the press comes off looking a little bit tarnished. His analysis of the Watergate coverage is that "at best, reporters, including Woodward and Bernstein, only leaked elements of the prosecutors' case to the public in advance of the trial." Of the New York Times's version of the Pentagon Papers, he says, "Substantial revisions in the history were made on major points" in order to convert what was in fact a bureaucratic study...
...hairy and scary as assassination plots come, and the alleged target was one of the nation's most prominent muckrakers, Columnist Jack Anderson. Or so, at least, reported another top journalist, the Washington Post's Bob Woodward. Last week he wrote that Watergate Burglar E. Howard Hunt told some of his former CIA associates "that he was ordered in December 1971, or January 1972, to assassinate Anderson." Citing "reliable sources," Woodward said the order came from "a senior official in the Nixon White House." A poison was to be supplied by a former CIA physician...
...over again, and we won't stand for it," said the Longshoremen's Thomas Gleason, referring to the Soviet purchase of 19 million tons of U.S. grain three summers ago. "Nobody is going to be ripped off," Butz assured the seamen. Said Don Woodward, president of the National Association of Wheat Growers: "It's the criticism of these sales to the Russians that'll bring on higher food prices, not the sales. All those complaints amount to an open invitation to jack up prices...