Word: gelb
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...casualties, have largely neutralized the antiwar movement. But there is more to the President's strength in the polls than is indicated by Defense Secretary Melvin Laird's glib gibe that "the American public understands the difference between addition and subtraction." Some observers, among them Leslie Gelb, who headed the "Pentagon papers" study during the Johnson Administration, reckon that the real difficulty in sustaining protest against Nixon's handling of the war began after the Laos incursion of 1971, when it became clear that Viet Nam was turning into a "proxy war" fought mainly by Vietnamese with...
Trade gossip had it that Times Managing Editor A.M. Rosenthal wanted the Sunday spot for his close friend Arthur Gelb, now metropolitan editor. But top management has in recent years preferred some separation between the daily and Sunday operations, and Rosenthal quickly hailed Frankel, 42, as "the best man for the job." An enterprising, thoughtful reporter who served as a foreign and White House correspondent before taking over the Washington bureau in 1968, Frankel was clearly marked for higher things. But the appointment of a political specialist to the primarily cultural Sunday job occasioned mild surprise...
LESLIE H. GELB...
...York Times has always been more of a national than a metropolitan newspaper; even its local coverage leans heavily on city politics and gives short shrift to human-interest stories. Last year, in an attempt to remedy the situation, Metropolitan Editor Arthur Gelb assigned Staff Reporter Joseph Lelyveld to spend a year covering the New York school system from the back row of a fourth-grade class at Harlem...
Buoyed by favorable reader response, Gelb has now commissioned a staffer to devote full time to a single city block in Manhattan. The man is John Corry, a veteran journalist and author (The Manchester Affair), who had just returned to the Times after three years of writing for Harper...