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...Beyond that, as solid a reason as any for Murrow's edge is simply that he is a fine reporter with sight and sound; he has a gift for capturing actuality in its moods and nuances as well as its meaning. Many a veteran of printer's ink has been, in the words of one of them, "faintly scandalized that such good reporting can be done by a man who never worked on a newspaper in his life." Fellow reporters have nicknamed Murrow "the Professor" after his academic past and "the Bishop" for his solemn cadences, but they...
...stand, and the Turkish economy today is plagued by inflation and hobbled by a shortage of consumer goods. The Turks have a word for it. The word is yok, which means, "There isn't any." It is yok for coffee and chocolate, knives and forks, writing paper and ink, appliances and spare parts. Had it not been for U.S. aid, it would have been yok this year for flour...
Despite the red ink, nobody believes that the Social Security system is going broke, since ultimately it is backed by the credit of the U.S. and the taxing power of Congress. But too much has been attempted too fast. Politicos of both parties have long been locked in a headlong competition to win votes by spreading Social Security coverage. Example: this month checks are going out to some 275,000 disabled persons over...
...given his own state of Negri Sembilan more than 24 years of enlightened and progressive rule. He has worked diligently for compulsory education, and he is such a stickler for the Queen's English that he used to return his children's letters with red-ink corrections and careful explanations of their errors. He has been married 27 years to his present third wife and has 21 grandchildren...
...Hitler was parachuting spies into Britain, and the script changes from Waugh to something by Olsen and Johnson. One spy. half-Japanese, was captured with binoculars and a spare pair of shoes hung around his neck. Another dropped in Ireland wearing a beret and high boots, lost his invisible ink swimming the River Boyne. As part of his design to scare the British, Hitler ordered "pack assembles'' dropped at random over the countryside. They included radios, maps and instructions to imaginary secret agents. Unmanned parachutes were dropped to spread the notion that a secret paratroop invasion was afoot...