Word: news
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Last September the White House announced that the Soviet Union was building a base to service missile-carrying submarines at the south Cuban port of Cienfuegos. The news set off shock waves of fear that an East-West confrontation comparable to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis was imminent. But then the Soviets removed their submarine tender from Cienfuegos, and the moment of alarm seemed to pass...
...last of Chicago's Front Page-style reporters; in Chicago. "Romy" became famous for the telephone impersonations that often enabled him to scoop rivals without ever leaving the city room. Consider his coverage of the 1966 Speck murder case: as soon as he heard the news, he called the house where the eight nurses had lived, identified himself as the coroner, and pumped a cop on the scene for all details-minutes before the real coroner appeared...
...credit to commercial banks through its "discount window," providing them with much needed funds for relending to corporations that had to pay off commercial paper. The mechanism was conventional, but the need for speed was so urgent that five top officers of the New York Federal Reserve Bank spread news of the rescue scheme by making weekend phone calls to key Manhattan bankers. Banks borrowed heavily from the Federal Reserve, and advanced some $2 billion to cash-shy corporations. In addition, the board relaxed its controversial Regulation Q, which had limited the amount of interest that banks could...
...hardly news to Dickens specialists today that the blacking-factory episode, as Wilson puts it, "provided nearly a lifetime's impetus toward artistic creation." Wilson's scrutiny of the fierce personal drive that transformed an anonymous, victimized lad into the inimitable Boz opens the way to a shrewd, wide-ranging analysis of Dickens' life and work. The result is the best all-round book on the subject for the general reader in years. Absorbing, gracefully written, freshly thought out, it is, in addition, that rare hybrid, a coffee-table book with both brains and beauty. The glossy...
...escapades in grimy alleys, where the scenes flash by like some satanic carnival; wide panoramas, like the scene in the brickyard in Dombey and Son, where the city lies on the horizon like a vast, destructive machine; dreamlike overhead views, like the dawn in Little Dorrit, where the news of Financier Merdle's suicide spreads through the town like poison through an organism...