Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost every Saigon newsman agrees that there has been an overemphasis on day-to-day activities, that more time should be spent on background stories. But where will they find the time? Confused by the politics in the cities, worn out by the fighting at the front, "we plod along," says Freelancer Merick, "and delude the American reader by not reporting enough on such things as the rural pacification and rebuilding programs in the villages. I don't think the American people are misinformed, but I think they are ill-informed." And it is the responsibility of the Saigon...
Heath, the first Conservative leader to come from a middle-class background, succeeded former Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home in July, 1965, after a bitter intra-party struggle...
...written many of our major Viet Nam stories. For Peter Kurd, who was a combat artist for LIFE in World War II, the frames of reference were many. He discovered that the Army officer who came to pose for the combat figure in the cover background had attended his alma mater, the New Mexico Military Institute. He has a 20-year-old son who before long will face a problem similar to that of this year's graduating class. Working in the faster medium of watercolor rather than his more familiar tempera, Hurd immediately liked his subject, sought...
...follow to perfection. In practice, La Farge is more similar to that French loner, Puvis de Chavannes, who also introduced mythological subject matter into naturalistic settings. La Farge, for instance, thought nothing of depicting The Halt of the Wise Men in 1878 with a recognizable Newport, R.I., background...
...only one which, with intelligence, polemic, candor and wit, questions the way in which the world is going. If others like to 'side with history,' the Journal impudently, but intelligently, challenges it." Fairlie warmly compliments the reporting and writing of the Journal's daily background news stories-a piece of praise that is the sole exception to his general contention that American journalists do not know how to write. Even so, for everyday reading, Fairlie's personal favorite is the Washington Post, "the most promising major newspaper in the eastern U.S.-in spite...