Word: editor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Richard Nixon lost the California governorship race in 1962, an acerbic English journalist wrote a political obituary. "Nixon's record suggests a man of no principle whatever," chided the pseudonymous columnist "Flavus" in London's New Statesman. Flavus, alias John Freeman, then editor of the socialist weekly, added for good measure in 1964 that Nixon and some other leading Republican hopefuls were "discredited and outmoded purveyors of the irrational...
...High Commissioner (ambassador) in India, where embroilment in India's quarrels with Pakistan seemed unavoidable, but where, as a diplomatic greenhorn, Freeman often found it advisable to lie low. The New Statesman's immense prestige among Indian intellectuals boosted the personal popularity of its former editor, and Freeman's vivacious dark-haired third wife, Catherine, won praise for her relief work in famine-ravaged Bihar...
...staff of Cal's student clinic, where he sometimes treats toes that have been dislocated when their owners leaped from barricades, Schoenfeld answered so many unhip hippies' questions that he eventually became convinced that something ought to be done. He half-jokingly suggested to Berkeley Barb Editor Max Scherr that his paper should print a medical column. "You write it," Scherr replied, and in March 1967 Schoenfeld...
Many students were disappointed at Nixon's pronouncement, but few were surprised. "Nixon's statement shows little understanding of the nature of student grievances," said Thomas Dawson, a Stanford junior. "The letter doesn't deal with the real issue at all," added John Simpson, editor of the student newspaper at the State University of New York's Binghamton campus. "We ought to be looking at what is wrong rather than talking about quelling student outbursts." John Michael, a University of Kansas senior, argued that students would be disillusioned by Nixon's stand "because it seems...
...stickiest problems arose when the Government-sponsored Walker Report on the violence in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention repeated the obscenities shouted at Chicago police. Ben Bradlee, editor of the Washington Post, decided at first to run the report without deleting the offensive words. "But when the story came up from the composing room and we saw all those words in cold print for the first time, we chickened out," he says. "It's one thing to hear it in conversation, another to see it in the paper. We used dashes...