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...editors had to go directly to the sources for some statistics that were vital to the story. Many of them were to be had only in Washington, and some weeks before the story went to press Washington Bureau Reporter Marshall Berger was handed a query ("The longest I had ever seen") from Business & Finance. To get the answers, Berger began seeing specialists in the departments of Commerce, Labor, Agriculture, Treasury, at the Federal Reserve Board, the Bureau of the Budget, the Brookings Institution, the Council of Economic Advisors. All were busy with their own year-end affairs, but they obligingly...
...becoming a novelist (It's Always Tomorrow'), popular lecturer and radio commentator, received the accolade of the Left when he was dropped by NBC last year because, in pinko PM's opinion at least, he was "too liberal." Now, St. John has written one of the longest (210,000 words) studies of Yugoslavia since Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon...
...ugly word was out that Harvard was going to indulge in underhand player solicitations. Harlow did not proselytize, solicit, or finagle. "I wanted to be associated with a decent institution before I die," he has since said. And the great triumph of his tenure at Harvard--the longest in the college's football history--is that he was able to equate the increasingly lonely standards of the Athletic Association with respectable standards on the gridiron...
...longest step in aeronautical development since Orville Wright first flew at Kitty Hawk, N.C., 44 years ago. But the Air Force's pride of achievement was dulled by the fact that it had not succeeded in guarding the secret of basic aerodynamic design which had opened up the supersonic speed zone. The Air Force' could and did keep secret the speeds which had been attained in its epoch-making flight...
...longest session in Council history saw two major projects, the Service Fund drive and the poll on wheat conservation, fall short of their goals and the Council took immediate steps to prevent recurrence of the same problems in the future, salvaging what it could from the present...