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...soccer tournament, which ended last week in England (see SPORT), the paper sent over 13 reporters, three cartoonists and four photographers. When U.S. Miler Jim Ryun recently set a new world record in Berkeley, Calif., L'Équipe ran his picture on the front page under a banner headline; inside, the paper devoted the better part of a page to a description of his feat, and postrace interviews with Ryun and ex-Record Holders Michel Jazy and Roger Bannister. "I doubt," boasts L'Équipe's editor in chief, Gaston Meyer, "that any American daily covered Ryun...
...Toman walk into the room. Whereupon he slammed down the receiver in embarrassment. Somehow, Suspect Richard Speck's mother in Dallas got the idea that she was talking to a lawyer hired to defend her son. She gushed information meant to help build his case. The banner headline over Romy's story read FAMILY'S STORY OF SPECK'S LIFE; there was ample detail on Speck's marital problems and his earlier troubles with the police. It was the kind of story that may affect the trial...
...Managing Editor E. E. ("Nick") Nichols as well as all the other veterans have been retained, and still more hands will be added. The paper has also been improved in format. Gone are the frontpage ads, the squiggly lines around feature pictures, and the banner headlines that did not vary in size whether they reported the start of a war or a local vice raid. Pages are now divided into six instead of eight columns. And the changes have already started to pay off. Circulation is up to 70,000; the number of pages has jumped to 44, with...
After interviewing seven students who smoked marijuana at the University of Oregon, Miss Buchanan wrote an article under the banner headline: "Students Condone Marijuana Use," which estimated that 200-400 students at the University smoked pot. Lane County District Attorney William Frye subpoenaed the Senior co-ed to testify befort a grand jury, and demanded that she reveal her sources. After three refusals, County Judge William Leavy ordered her to stand trial in contempt of court. Miss Buchanan was convicted last Wednesday, but will appeal the decision and sentence to the Oregon Supreme Court...
SOCIALISM IN OUR COUNTRY, IN OUR TIME, droned one timeless banner stamped with a jaded peace dove. Though "fraternal guests" invited from 85 countries were unable to get U.S. visas, non-Communist newsmen were admitted for the first time-but only briefly and on condition that no pictures be taken of faces. Unfortunately, the gathering in Webster Hall looked more like a tintype from an early Dreiser novel than a revolutionary threat for the '60s. Most of the delegates were middle-aged to elderly whites, though there was a smattering of Negroes and a small youth contingent...