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Presidential Rebuke. The Senator also objected for a time to the nomination of Creed Black, managing editor of the Chicago Daily News, as HEW Assistant Secretary for Congressional Affairs. At first, Dirksen said no because the News had opposed his re-election last fall. Later he relented when Senator Charles Percy intervened...
Fortress Face. Across the U.S., the trend is against newspapers citing the race of suspects unless the crime is racially motivated (Black Panthers assaulting whites, for example). But the editor of the News, Martin Hayden, argues that most crimes are committed by "underprivileged, undereducated and deprived youngsters from the slum ghetto." Pointing that out, he contends, may persuade whites to support programs to help black youth and cause "reasonable black people to realize that there is a racial aspect to the current crime problem...
...Editor Hayden's crusade angers a significant part of the community...
...glass and riot shutters guard the main entrance. A tunnel enables employees to enter the building from a parking lot, and all must carry cards to gain admittance. Even so, last week a militant black leader managed to slip in and appear in the city room to berate an editor. Simultaneously, the editor's phone rang. It was a proud guard, calling to report that he had stopped two men trying to get by. They turned out to be FBI agents...
...weekend. With it, they raised a problem long ago solved by Americans: what to do with the extra day. Naturally the Soviets seek a Marxist-Leninist solution. "We have nothing against your supermarkets and all your material facilities for leisure time," says Sergei Vishnevsky, a Pravda editor with long experience in the U.S. "But they have to be combined with high standards of culture, which your middle classes do not have. Material facilities are dead without the supreme blessing of culture...