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Gutierrez went to work on his Image of Chile as soon as he arrived in Wash ington last February. He recruited performers, rounded up private companies in Chile as financial angels. Not one cent had to come from the Chilean or U.S. governments. Meantime, the ambassador's wife sent out 15,000 invitations to universities, cultural groups, government and diplomatic officials...
...then, some chain member still flashes signs of the old crusading fire, historically a hallmark of Scripps-Howard papers. Two Scripps-Howard Washington reporters dug up some of the first pay dirt in the Billie Sol Estes scandal. The Wash ington Daily News has crusaded loudly against expensive junkets and payroll padding by U.S. Congressmen. On the editorial side, Scripps-Howard's Washington-based editorialists have come out for sanity in the federal budget, against unilateral tax cuts, against wasting troops in Laos ("We cannot save a far-off country which doesn't care whether it is saved...
...Pantagraph's strange ban has been in force so long that no one on the paper remembers when it began, or why. Some say it dates from the 1880s, when, for the first time, regular word of extra-Bloom-ington events came stuttering in over the newfangled press service telegraph and-in Bloomington, anyway-took a greedy grip on Page One. Today the sight of a local story on the front page would perturb editor and reader both...
...program, launched new four-year schools of medicine, dentistry and nursing, earnestly tried to make his university "the brain, the nerve center, the heart and the conscience and the will of the state." But he was a man too much in demand: he was called so often to Wash ington-as special assistant to President Truman on foreign aid, director of the Psychological Strategy Board, chairman of the board that judged the Oppenheimer case, and now as Assistant Secretary of Defense-that for much of the time he was an absentee landlord. Too few of his colleagues got to know...
James ("Scotty") Reston, the New York Times's diplomatic correspondent, had written out four polite questions in mid-December, had shown them to his Wash ington bureau chief, Pundit Arthur Krock, and then sent them around to the Soviet embassy with a covering letter. Reston had tried this system before with no luck, so he had no qualms about going off to Florida for a Christmas vacation. On Christmas Eve, his office tracked him down in St. Petersburg to relay a message: call the Russian embassy. Reston did, and the Christmas morning Times, in five-column headlines, accompanied...