Word: sentinels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When her father died in 1951, Cheshire dropped out of Union College in Barbourville, Ky., and became a reporter for the Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel. Assigned to the police beat, she promptly solved a two-year-old murder. Her husband Herb Cheshire, Knoxville U.P.I, bureau manager, was transferred to Washington in 1954, and Maxine landed a society-page job with the Post. Says she: "They wanted a polite person with elbow-length white gloves who was socially presentable...
...patch of prairie with my father, who was 80 years old. It was undulating land between the great rivers Mississippi and Missouri. We looked for an old friend of his-a red-tailed hawk with one of his tail feathers missing. He had perched for years as a sentinel on a tree on a far hill, crying his protest to intruders who entered his domain. Gone, mused my father, who had once carried me on his shoulders through these fields (now he needed my hand). Another friend swallowed by time, my father said. But the old rascal's progeny...
...morning after, the early edition of the Milwaukee Sentinel was selling secondhand for $20 a copy, the Chicago Tribune was preparing an editorial reminding readers of its own DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN gaffe, two television networks were sharing their humiliation with an audience of millions, and Jimmy Carter had snatched a memorable psychological victory in the Wisconsin Democratic primary. All this because in their race to be first, ABC and NBC had declared Congressman Morris Udall an upset winner instead of what he was about to be, a game loser...
...then the damage was done. Following the two networks, half a dozen major newspapers, including the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the New York Daily News and the Sentinel, went to press with early editions whose bold headlines proclaimed Udall the winner. Bolstered by optimistic projections from some of his staff, Udall gave a short victory speech ("How sweet it is!") to a throng of jubilant supporters-and headed...
...popular passions more in the late 1960s than the national debate over a massive investment in an anti-ballistic missile, better known as the ABM. Shouting "No bombs in the backyard!" mothers, scholars and other citizens marched in protest against Lyndon Johnson's plan to install nuclear-tipped Sentinel ABMs at twelve sites around the country. The furor went on even after Richard Nixon changed the ABM'S name to Safeguard and scaled down the project to a "thin" shield protecting only a few cities from attack by iCBMs. The issue began to fade after...