Word: notebook
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Force One jetted westward last week, the principal passenger settled down to his must reading-a blue, loose-leaf notebook with gold embossed lettering identifying it as "The President's Daily News Briefing." The clouds gathering outside were as nothing compared to the scowl forming on Richard Nixon's face. Press Secretary Ron Ziegler was summoned. Nixon had just read a digest of a column by Newhouse newspapers Correspondent Don Bacon that noted occasions on which Ziegler has planted questions with White House reporters on the eve of Nixon's news conferences. In 23 years of public...
...News. Outside the profession, much of Lisagor's recognition and prestige is due to his appearances on television, which he pretends to disparage. "I belong to the dirty-fingernail set," he boasts. "Those who work with pencil and notebook, as opposed to the folk heroes on TV. I'm a working stiff, a shoe-leather man." He is embarrassed when little girls recognize him and ask for his autograph. Nevertheless, he does a weekly report for NET and is the most frequent guest journalist on NBC's Meet the Press, a program that displays Lisagor...
...nostalgia will be no help for the Dylan faithful, who regularly look to him for an indication of pop music's next new direction. The best they can do is ponder several of the new Dylan songs that seem to be exploratory sketches from a low-key musical notebook. There is, for example, Wigwam, in which Dylan goes "da-da-da-da" to a slow marching tune while-believe it or not-a choir of bugles and low brass urges him along...
...Yeah, but he's been up there for an hour an a half." In a matter of minutes, Stewart and Robbie were quieted, Karen learned what Chaos meant, and the boy in the vest resumed his baroque sketches in the margins of his notebook...
During the last four modules of the day, I was sent to the school auditorium to read and talk poetry to a group of a hundred students. As soon as I perched myself on the stool in front of them with my notebook of poems, they responded by taking out paper and pencils. "Put your paper and pencils away." I said in mock anger. "You can't learn anything when you're taking notes." They turned tentatively to their teachers to see if that was OK. I read two poems that concerned a white suburb, similar to theirs, hoping that...