Word: bureau
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...Gary William Wilson, graduating from California State College at Los Angeles, as the one to represent the class. As might be expected, nearly everyone who worked on the story had been touched at one time or an other and in various ways by the central question. The Los Angeles bureau's John Shaw, a key man among the 31 correspondents who contributed to the story, served two years (1949-51) as a draftee in the British army, and much more recently spent two years covering the war for us in Viet Nam. Writer William Johnson, for whom this...
...long after Correspondent Louis Kraar opened our new bureau in Bangkok last fall, he intensified the preparations for a cover story on the King and Queen.* Among the sources he wanted to reach were, of course, top government officials, including Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn (whose garden ultimately was the scene of one interview). More complicated was getting an interview with King Bhumibol, who rarely holds conferences with foreign newsmen and even more rarely gives permission for direct quotation. That interview required not only the King's consent but also formal approval by the Thai Cabinet...
...economic winds last week were blowing, in weather-bureau terms, "variable...
...Reston was offered the job of Editor of the Washington Post, which would have put him in charge of the Post's editorial page. He told Krock about the offer, and in order to keep Reston with the Times, Krock stepped down as bureau chief and gave Reston...
...Times' "Washington Correspondent"-the bureau chief's official title-bureau got a Sunday column. Although he continued to report on a day-to-day basis, his focus shifted slightly. "I try to ask myself," he said in 1958, "what's not getting reported? What's not on the agenda? What's the big story we're all missing? That way I lean against the wind...