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Getting right down to cases, Jones admitted that his Tribune sometimes ignores long-ago criminal records in obituaries, drops stories that might needlessly embarrass the subject, and uses a double standard in reporting some news, e.g., carrying squibs on the doings of the town drunk, but killing the drunken-driving episode of a prominent citizen. When an editor tries to decide what to print and what to kill, he said, he "must understand that uncompromising honesty carries cruelty in its saddlebags, and that too much gentleness will help evil thrive...
...anti-American manifestations seemed designed mainly to embarrass President Ngo Dinh Diem's anti-Communist Viet Nam government, one source said...
Soldier Eisenhower's studious bent recently led him to consider, then turn down, an offer from a big Eastern school to become a teacher-on the offer's own merits, not because the alternative would embarrass his father or the Army. He is determined to make the Army his career. Says he: "I'm an infantry officer one thousand percent...
...director mustn't show off, and embarrass his actors by getting laughs at their expense. Nothing reveals people so much as when they are trying to be something they are not. Actors have to perform a spiritual strip-tease in rehearsals, and the director should handle them on a clinical basis and with antiseptic sympathy--like a doctor with neurotic patients...
...Ordered Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to fly to the London disarmament talks. White House officials explained that Dulles' sudden trip was neither routine nor intended to embarrass U.S. Disarmament Negotiator Harold Stassen; instead, Dulles wants another face-to-face huddle with Western diplomats on key issues (see FOREIGN NEWS...