Word: notes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opportunities to play Jimmy Connors and other stars he meets while working. Reporter-Researcher Jay Rosenstein had a typically humbling experience while interviewing the Steelers' defensive tackle "Mean" Joe Greene at his Texas home for this week's story. At one point Rosenstein looked up from his note pad and noticed that Greene's two-year-old daughter had fallen into the swimming pool. Rosenstein, who played club football at the University of Pittsburgh and considers himself reasonably agile, threw his notes aside and dived into the pool. But as he thrashed furiously, he saw a "large...
...tells of a man, lying beside his wife in bed, remembering a childhood race, is one of the most vibrant ever written. The symbols of the book are carefully introduced, but the reader, after finishing the book, is left uncertain as to whether the prologue is Woiwode's autobiographical note or the true end of the novel, to be read after the author's last chapter, "L'envoi...
...conclusion, the committee sounds a never-again note. But it acknowledges some of the moral ambiguities that are involved in so sensitive a subject as foreign policy murders. What is inexcusable in peacetime becomes heroic in war−and not all intelligence operatives easily recognize the difference between the two. In wartime, it is surely justifiable to plot against, say, Hitler. Would it have been right for Americans to try to kill him in 1936? The committee, however, draws a firm distinction between wartime and peacetime assassination attempts. It recommends a law that would make it a criminal offense...
...King then switched to the black-owned Lorraine Motel. It was there he was shot on April 4, though the committee in no way suggests that the FBI was setting him up. That memo about the Holiday Inn contained the notation "O.K. ... H.", which was Hoover's usual note of approval...
...size of the S.N.P. vote forced Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Labor Party to take note of these discontented rumblings from the north. Thus last week, Wilson, in the annual speech from the throne delivered by Queen Elizabeth, announced that his government planned to introduce legislation "devolving" some of the functions now carried out by Parliament to new regional assemblies in Scotland and Wales...