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Worthy is one of three American newspapermen who incurred State Department wrath by violating a ban on travel in Communist China. He and two men from Look Magazine disregarded warnings that their passports were invalid for that country, and still face possible legal action and passport revocation. He returned to this country...
...gathering organizations, CBS itself has publicly protested the State Department's policy of keeping correspondents out of China. It was the only network to broadcast direct reports from the Baltimore Afro-American's William Worthy, one of the three newsmen who entered China in defiance of the ban. To top things off, on the very evening Sevareid was edited off the air, a different CBS deskman in Manhattan passed Ed Murrow's blunter criticism of the State Department's policy: "What it comes down to is that we must refuse to allow ourselves to know about...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20--The State and Justice departments are reported considering whether any laws were violated by three newsmen who went to Red China in defiance of a State Department ban--but indications are that no action will be taken against them...
Bricks Added. In the six months since the dispute began, the press had done little more than fling hot words and editorial darts at the State Department, but last week it began adding some bricks. Two U.S. newsmen who have defied the ban-Edmund Stevens of Look and William Worthy Jr. of the Baltimore Afro-American-made ready to invoke open hearings to fight the State Department's move to revoke their passports. Said Worthy, back in the U.S. after 41 days in Red China: "I want to embarrass the hell out of the State Department." The American Newspaper...
HUSH-A-PHONE fight has been lost by American Telephone & Telegraph Co. after eight-year court struggle. Bowing to a U.S. Court of Appeals order, FCC reversed its earlier decision and ruled finally that A.T. & T. cannot ban use of "Hush-A-Phone" shields, which slip over speaking end of telephone and permit user to speak without being easily overheard...