Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wagdi is chief correspondent for Al Ahram, Cairo daily, and, as one of Egypt's most respected reporters, has easy access to high officials. Kavoussi once worked for the. London Daily Express, has a sound knowledge of English. Other part-time correspondents in the Middle East are Riza Chandir in Istanbul, who operates his own Turkish news agency; Abu Said el Riche in Beirut, onetime correspondent for the London Daily Mail; Ernest Main on Cyprus and Monica Dehn in Israel. In addition to these, a wide network of observers maintains a flow of suggested stories to the Beirut headquarters...
Journalists, whose job is to communicate, look down on the long-haired boys who simply want to express themselves. But occasionally the disciples of clarity talk with their mouths full. Two examples from last week's newspapers...
Next morning at 9:30, after waiting for Europe's famed Simplon-Orient Express to roar along the nearby tracks on its way from Sofia to Istanbul, the Greeks opened fire with machine guns and mortars. After 60 minutes' bombardment and no reply, four bedraggled Bulgars crept off the sandbank and sloshed across the river into the woods on the Communist side. By nightfall, despite a constant barrage of propaganda insults on the Bulgarian and Greek radios, and much continued fluttering at U.N., General Manidakis was able to report that all was quiet on the Evros front...
Even headline-hardened readers of Hearst's Los Angeles Herald & Express (circ. 305,056) were astonished last week by the seven-column streamer: LINK MARGARET TRUMAN-ADLAI IN ROMANCE...
...third World Conference of Friends, held last week in Oxford, England, U.S. Quakers apologized to their foreign brethren for possessing so large a share of the divine bounty. Friend Philip E. Jacob of Swarthmore, Pa. asked the conference to express "a sense of shame at the concentration of power and wealth in America...