Word: accessible
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...York Times 's Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger wrote him a "Dear Foster" letter arguing that any such restriction would be "abridging the freedom of the press." Last week, in a "Dear Arthur" answer, Secretary Dulles gave a definition of press freedom that, if widely adopted, would deny newsmen access to every time-honored news source, from the local police station to the Pentagon to Capitol Hill. "The constitutional 'freedom of the press,' " wrote Dulles, "relates to publication, and not to the gathering of news...
Almost as startling as Secretary Dulles' restrictive view, was the lethargy with which journalism responded. One of the few papers to protest was the New York Times: "Surely Mr. Dulles must realize that the right to publish news depends on the prior right to have access to it. If access is arbitrarily limited, as in the present case, the right of publication is interfered with to exactly the same degree. Would Mr. Dulles contend that freedom to produce a blank page is 'freedom of the press...
...young firm sent off to Warsaw a design for a five-story apartment building resting on concrete columns with balcony access for every apartment. Planned to such detail as the radiant-heating system, plumbing and size of bolts needed to fasten parts, it has a special appeal for the penury-plagued Poles. It is completely prefabricated, with every wall, except those for bathrooms, made before installation so that the building's outer shell can be erected before it is even decided how many apartments are needed on the inside. In April the young refugees were informed that their design...
Such masterpieces go far to explain the response made by the great nth century Painter Kuo Hsi, who asked: "Why does a virtuous man take delight in landscape?" His own reply: "Having no access to the landscape, the lover of forest and stream, the friend of mist and haze, enjoys them only in his dreams. How delightful then to have a landscape painted by a skilled hand! Without leaving the room, at once he finds himself among the streams and ravines; the cries of the birds and monkeys are faintly audible to his senses; light on the hills and reflections...
Under the 1946 regulation all agencies are required to make reports on their operations and to give the public access to all their records. The exceptions, which have been twisted and tortured, provide that the records be classified if they "involve matters of secrecy in the public interest or relate solely to the internal management of an agency...