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...deception, and decided that this was worse than the crisis itself: "If the line between truth and falsehood should become permanently clouded, then the republic, in an effort to combat the perils without, faces an even greater danger within." Editorialized the Los Angeles Times: "You can't both con the press and count...
...least of all President Kennedy, was trying to con the press. His two chief press liaison officers were working overtime, by direct presidential order, to keep reporters thoroughly informed. Arthur Sylvester, 61, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and a former newsman himself (37 years on the Newark Evening News), had the experience to understand and soothe press corps complaints about Government news control. Patient and cooperative, Sylvester was holding three press conferences a day to see that newsmen got every bit of intelligence they were entitled to. Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger rushed White House bulletins...
...management is charted under consultation with the editors. Policy is framed at an annual meeting of officers and editors, and the process is democratic, at least in form. "We reach decisions by common consent." says Walker Stone. Scripps-Howard's editor in chief. Based on this common con sent, a group composed of Stone and four editorial writers daily distributes editorials throughout the empire. Editors are expected to run them, and usually do, but no compulsion is involved. Fortnight ago. in segregationist Birmingham, Ala., the Scripps-Howard Post-Herald rejected an angry editorial that compared Mississippi's rioting...
...small and vulnerably human. In an era where others were con cerned with the conflict of good v. evil, Anton Chekhov saw mainly the conflict of simplicity v. pretension, and found the consequences depressing. In his writing, he refused to pass explicit judgment, and observing life, he found no meaning but only a mystery. In flamboyant 19th century Russia, choked with morality tales, nourished on progressive theories of history, lashed with messianic messages, Chekhov, who lived from 1860 to 1904, was ahead of his literary time, a lonely, gentle, restrained man who remains an ambiguous figure even in this exhaustive...
...hobby. Hours after the changeover from Dutch to U.N. control, a planeload of Indonesian officials flew into Hollandia to "help" the U.N. They promised the moon: $100 million worth of development aid, 2,000 teachers, establishment of a West Irian university. Purpose of pledges: to con the Papuans out of any independence movement that might jeopardize control by Indonesia, the new imperial power in the area...