Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Hyannis press corps was there primarily to cover one event: Senator Kennedy's statement of victory or concession of defeat. Until this happened, the reporters checked on the returns and absorbed bits of human interest material culled by a pool of reporters stationed at the Kennedy homes about five miles away. From time to time, both Tuesday night and Wednesday, press aide Don Wilson read a "pool report" on the activities of various members of the Kennedy clan. Early Tuesday evening, reading the list of Senator Kennedy's dinner guests, Wilson (actually, the reporter who had written the story) managed...
Another Tuesday pool report noted that the Kennedy girls were watching the returns in toreador pants. Before Wilson had finished reading the report, he had to issue a correction; they were not wearing toreador pants, they were wearing slacks. Later, when Wilson announced that the Senator was still in sports clothes, one reporter called out, "Is he wearing toreador pants...
...certainly the motorcade-style of campaigning is impressive in itself. Usually a police post-car and a sound truck lead the way. Then come a "pool car" for the wire service photographers (for pictures of handshaking and so forth) and the candidate's convertible, in which Kennedy rides along with two or three of the best dignitaries available for the occasion. Burly detectives follow in a patrol...
Regard for Reporters. Now there is a chilly reserve between the two sides, each suspicious of the other. Most reporters now fly in a separate plane or planes; the four pool reporters admitted to the Nixon plane on rotation are carefully partitioned from the candidate, who keeps almost entirely to his quarters in the rear. "Nixon's people seem to feel the reporters are a conspiratorial group," says the Baltimore Sun's Phil Potter. Nixon's press secretary, Herbert G. Klein, denying that there is any real hostility, admits that "you don't talk...
...hand in his widespread interests by daily telephone calls to the U.S., where his son Edgar has taken over the main direction of the Kaiser empire. He is putting the finishing touches on a $1,000,000 house for himself on Maunalua Bay. It has a YMCA-size swimming pool, a restaurant-size kitchen, built-in movie equipment and wallpaper covered with the HJK monogram that Kaiser puts on most of his possessions. In true Kaiser style, even his poodles live like kings, with a covered exercise area in their kennel of gold-anodized aluminum, a trophy room, a maternity...