Word: firsthand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unmarked office where she pored over Kissinger's books and foreign-policy statements. White House Correspondent Jerrold Schecter, who accompanied Nixon and Kissinger to Moscow and Peking earlier in the year and who has lately been following his subjects from Paris to Key Biscayne, Fla., provided his firsthand observations of the special working relationship that exists between the two men. Associate Editor Lance Morrow wrote the cover, his second Man of the Year effort (he also wrote "The Middle Americans" in 1969) and his seventh cover story this year...
...Foxes, failed to prove his case. Some of his evidence was indeed controvertible, and much of it was questionable. In addition, some of it, presented as if it were being disclosed for the first time, is rehashed material that had been published before. Above all, the series lacked convincing firsthand testimony to Bormann's existence. Farago did not claim to have seen Bormann with his own eyes. The best he could offer was the word of someone else, and that was quickly in dispute...
...federal rules. They will hardly revolutionize U.S. courtrooms; what they will do is permit a wider range of evidence. The biggest change is a "broader discretion to admit hearsay," says Stanford Law Professor John Kaplan. Hearsay-generally any information to which a witness cannot testify of his own firsthand knowledge-has traditionally been forbidden except in certain specified circumstances (for example, statements made by a person against his own interest). Now a judge may admit any hearsay having "circumstantial guarantees of trustworthiness...
Correspondent James Willwerth got a firsthand taste of that lifestyle while accompanying Bach in the Widgeon on a barnstorming-style promotional tour from Akron to Los Angeles. Between daytime autographing sessions at bookstores and nighttime layovers at small county airports, Willwerth managed to get in a series of airborne interviews. "At times he had so much to say," recalls Willwerth, "that it was hard to keep him on one subject. We were constantly swapping anecdotes and laughing, and then suddenly I would have to reach for my notebook to keep the conversation from going to waste...
Puharich told the conference that his research team had studied firsthand 1,000 of Arigó's cases without learning how the healer made his diagnoses or effected his cures. "But," said Puharich, "our nice modern equipment proved that genuine healing took place under bizarre conditions and unbelievable circumstances. Clearly we have a lot of research ahead...