Word: editor
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...Carter and Mondale staff operations during the campaign, was first to disclose a rift between key advisers on Carter's postelection team. Sometimes a crumb of information is dropped between the soup and nuts at a Georgetown dinner party. At one such soirée, Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter learned that former L B J Staffer Joseph Califano had been asked to go secretly to Plains to talk with the President-elect. The tipoff: Califano was tracked down at the same party by a White House telephone operator...
When he was here at Harvard last year as a Nieman fellow, Percy P. Qoboza, editor of the black South African community's largest newspaper, said he did not worry about his government's reaction to his candid statements against apartheid during his stay...
...year-old editor enjoys a wide reputation as one of the South African black community's leading moderates. Last year, he stressed that "The whites are in South Africa to stay--we've got to devise some way by which we can all work together...
Benjamin Pogrund, an associate editor of South Africa's leading white liberal paper who spent six months working for The Boston Globe this year, said this fall that most newspaper censorship in South Africa has been internal. Members of the press must clear stories the regime considers either controversial or anti-apartheid with government representatives...
...mails is nothing to write home about. But if electronics or private services ever totally take over the business of correspondence, something will have been lost. Stamps, as this volume demonstrates, have often achieved a rare combination of function and beauty. David Lidman, a former stamps editor for the New York Times, offers a crisp history of franking, from ancient stone tablets to contemporary air mail. The 1,200 color illustrations convey a representative sampling of the good, the odd and the exceptional. Committed collectors may find nothing new here, but the book is ready-made for the Johnny-come...