Word: calls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smiling sophomore for twenty dollars. He was daydreaming; his dark hair had fallen over his forehead and now partly concealed his empty-eyes, but it could not hide the wanton slant of his grin. He had not moved for half an hour when he decided to make the phone call...
...textbook coup. At 3 a.m., shortly before the most faithful Moslems would answer the call to early morning prayers, columns of trucks loaded with troops rolled through Tripoli, spearheaded by British-made Centurion tanks. Swiftly, soldiers surrounded army headquarters, the security police building, the Royal Palace and the national radio station. Teleprinters in the national news agency fell silent. The borders were sealed tight, and at the airports, controllers got orders to suspend all air traffic indefinitely...
...erred in piecing together an event from details provided by his friends-or even by his enemies out to get someone. He often played favorites (Lyndon Johnson, Wayne Morse), but favoritism was no safeguard against Pearson criticism. Despite the bitterness he provoked, he never lost his sources. "When I call," he said, "people don't know if I've got something on them or am giving them the chance to clear up something-so I get through...
...understand his favorites. Witness the recent miscalculation of their mood by Charles de Gaulle, who presumed himself to be modern France incarnate. The challenge of trying to explicate such a capricious, restive and magnificently wrongheaded people is always strong. It has been stimulated lately by what the French discreetly call "the events" of May-June 1968 as well as by the general's abrupt departure...
Weyman's chronicle and the handful of other tales included in the book are all what journalism schools used to call human interest stories. In telling about people, however, St. Clair McKelway scrupulously avoids confusing the knack of self-expression with the act of self-intrusion. He might be called an old-fashioned journalist-if he did not so often manage to sound so refreshingly...