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Outsider. By 1959, the subcommittee investigation had pretty well run its course, and Salinger was offered an attractive publicity job with the Democratic Advisory Council, an adjunct of the Democratic National Committee. He was tempted, and he said so to Bobby. Recalls Salinger: "He told me not to make a decision for 24 hours. The next morning J.F.K. called up and asked me to come to his office. He said he'd heard about the job I was offered, and he hoped I wouldn't take it because he counted on me working in his presidential campaign...
...quieter tone of current editorial comment on the campaign suggests that news analysis is being restored to its proper role as a valuable adjunct to, but not the main instrument of, good reporting. Not that the working newsman has surrendered his privilege of presenting the news within the light of his own convictions, but at the moment, there are few campaign issues for newsmen to have convictions about. The polls show Goldwater far behind; liberal reporters see little to bother them beyond reporting a clash of personalities...
...underground trade has become a significant adjunct to the $3 billion-a-year above-board trade between free and Red Europe. Austria's Interior Minister Franz Olah, whose country ranks as the No. 1 clandestine exporter, recently pleaded with his countrymen to respect the satellites' customs and currency regulations. Since April, 20 Austrians have been arrested in Czechoslovakia on smuggling charges. A Czech court convicted one Austrian couple and an accomplice of making 49 visits to Czechoslovakia to cart in, among other items, 256 nylon coats, 39 transistor radios, 42 pairs of stockings and 22 Ibs. of chocolate...
...were illuminated miniatures that had originally been pages in a late 15th century manuscript, and they were the start of what is today the world's biggest and best private collection. Last week 70 items from that collection were on public display at the Cloisters, the way-uptown adjunct of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Some are less than 3 in. in height; none are more than 24 in. All glitter with the gemlike colors that they had when their usually anonymous creators made them...
This is true whether the newspaper is in some degree an adjunct of the university, or operates outside the official family. The most outspoken and untrammeled campus newspapers today have little or no official status. The Harvard Crimson and the Michigan Daily are prime examples. Tradition confers on them an independence that is relatively rare...