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Sometimes young Korean girls in uniform gawked in at the windows - just like people at home gawking into Macy's, said a U.S. briefing officer.
At the briefing session that night, an officer on Ridgway's information staff conceded that "conditions are not satisfactory to the press corps . . . But the press was not [at Kaesong] because my orders were that they shouldn't be." The admission threw the press into an angry uproar...
The Leak. As the Government expanded, it developed a slick technique of professional pressagentry. Sometimes the pressagents do a helpful and necessary job of briefing reporters on complicated subjects. But too often they plug only the Administration's side of a crucial Government issue, hope the reporter hasn'...
Under this adroit propaganda system (which recently caused the Washington Post to cry that the "real news of what is happening in the Capital ... is more & more limited to mouth-to-mouth circulation"), big policy stories follow a pattern. First there is the informed tip, carried by favored columnists and...
Long before Pentagon days, Lieut. Colonel George Marshall so impressed General John Pershing. The Navy's Forrest Sherman was taken under the wing of Admiral Chester Nimitz; Lauris Norstad, now top airman in Europe, was tapped by General Hap Arnold. Lieut. General Al Gruenther, generally regarded as the most...