Word: memos
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...Hall into some sticky situations when, for instance, he has been called by The Crimson for comment on a volatile story. Bok and others in Mass Hall have recognized this and have encouraged Hall to quell his impulse to express his gut reactions. For example, in a confidential memo relayed from Daly to Bok, Robin Schmidt, assistant vice president for government affairs, advised in September 1974 that the Bok administration should continue to head off some of Hall's comments that appear to ignore the "scholarly concerns" of members of the Harvard community...
Soon after the takeover, they tossed a three-page typewritten memo out of a window, threatening to blow up the building unless seven cronies jailed in Japan were released. Malaysian officials quickly rejected the use of force. The lives of the hostages, announced Prime Minister Abdul Razak, were of the "greatest importance." Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Miki, on a state visit to Washington, agreed. Awakened just after 2 a.m. in his suite at Blair House, he quickly overruled reluctant officials in Tokyo and instructed them to fly the seven prisoners to Kuala Lumpur aboard a Japan Air Lines...
...didn't she go out and do something?'" She leans forward earnestly, a plaintive note in her voice. "I didn't spend a lot of time in the book, and maybe I should have, just documenting every single thing I did to try to change it, every memo that I wrote, every phone call I tried to make, every criticism. We'd go in and see Gordon; we'd beg them to take the ad libs off the air. I had plans for series of things we could do, and ideas for film pieces. And Gordon would say, 'Well...
...Gourley's trash-can investigation as "indefensible-both as journalistic-practice and as civilized behavior." Later in the week a Palm Beach, Fla., Post reporter pawed through garbage bins at the National Enquirer's headquarters in nearby Lantana and came up with a revealing two-year-old memo from Publisher Generoso Pope Jr. exhorting his troops: "Prod, push and probe the main characters in the story. Help them frame their answers. Ask leading questions like 'Do you ever go into the corner...
...When the memo was hand-carried to McCone, he hit the roof. He telephoned the Pentagon and demanded that the memo be withdrawn at once. That was done, but a copy, with the objectionable terms blanked out, somehow survives, and was the object of much speculation among the Rockefeller and Senate panels. Two months after the August meeting, the Soviet missiles were discovered in Cuba. In the turmoil, Harvey's executive action and the Mafia connection all disappeared into the void, never to be revived...