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...83rd Congress got down to business, TIME reporters were again busy "working the Hill." The regular TIME reporters covering the Hill this year are James L. McConaughy Jr. and John L. Steele. In the 15 years he has been with TIME, McConaughy has been a writer. Chicago correspondent, deskman in the news bureau, bureau chief in Ottawa (where he spent 3½ years "watching the other form of democratic government work-the parliamentary system of Canada") and TIME'S bureau chief in Seattle. He has covered Congress for TIME since 1951. "I still remember my first...
...worse than useless. En route now to Buenos Aires is a different kind of ambassador, a capable but little-known careerman who is unlikely either to sass or salute a defiant neighbor. Even Perón should be able to grasp that Albert Nufer, 57, a longtime State Department deskman whose only previous ambassadorial assignment was in El Salvador, is likely to ask nothing, offer nothing. For the present, U.S. policy toward Perón will be to maintain correct surface relations-but the surface will...
...Call-Bulletin bought one of the pictures for $85; Scripps-Howard's News got another for $25. Both papers ran them on Page One, and next morning Hearst's Examiner ran others. The only San Francisco paper that did not run the pictures was the Chronicle, whose deskman could not be reached when the agency was peddling the prints. Next day the Chronicle ran a story that plainly condemned taking the picture under the circumstances. Said Managing Editor Larry Fanning: "We wouldn't have printed the pictures if they'd been offered to us for nothing...
Washington Correspondent Frances Levison, while covering the Kefauver hearings, discovered a new hazard to her profession when she was called by her bureau's deskman, who asked: "Where were you? We were watching TV and you weren't at the press table...
...eight national and international stories, but no mention of the war, except a four-line box tucked in a Washington dispatch: "South Koreans fall back a mile . . . Details on page 9." On page 9, the Trib covered the Korean fighting with two brief wire-service stories. Explained a Trib deskman: "There wasn't much developing in the war that day. The people who get out the Tribune thought that there were a lot of other good stories [readers] would be more interested...