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11 picks · 1956–1977

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A NICE PLACE TO VISIT
a reporter at large ·

A REPORTER AT LARGE about South Greenwich Village. The writer was curious about what was happening to the South Village as a community. Had lunch with …

HANDGUNS
a reporter at large ·

A REPORTER AT LARGE about the National Council to Control Handguns -- established in January, 1974, thus setting up the first national handgun-control …

Comment
comment ·

It has often been said that without Judge Sirica's courage & independence the essential story of Watergate would never have been told. But it can also …

The Presidency and the Press
reflections ·

Richard Harris writes about the contentious relationships between U.S. Presidents and the press, especially Richard Nixon’s hostility toward the media.

CLOSED
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about the closing of the Lobster, a restaurant on W. 45th St., between Sixth & Seventh Avenues, which was established in 1919. Writer, in…

The Turning Point
annals of legislation ·

Richard Harris on Congress’s 1968 passage of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, of 1968, commonly called the Crime Bill: “a piece of demagoguery devised in malevolence and enacted in hysteria,” he writes.

HOW'S IT LOOK?
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about the business of campaigning for public office, specifically about the race for a seat in the House of Representatives from the …

DELEGATE
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about the role of the individual delegate attending a National Convention. Mr. Harris followed one such delegate, John A. Garbarino, …

UP THE SEAWAY.
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about St. Lawrence Seaway and account of a ride up the Seaway on a Great Lakes freighter. For over 50 years a powerful lobby in the U.S. …

THEY CAN BE DIFFERENT THAN THEY EVER KNEW
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about an 18 year old boy who shoplifted in a weak moment, in 1955, and his rehabilitation thru humane treatment. Writer calls the boy …

I'D LIKE TO TALK TO YOU FOR A MINUTE
a reporter at large ·

Lengthy discussion in REPORTER AT LARGE about Jehovah's Witnesses. Although Witnesses claim that the first Witness was Abel, a possibly more defensible…