Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...batted an eye when I presented my tourist card with its "Occupation: Journalist." They quietly took my picture, checked me electronically for weapons, secretly searched my belongings, fastened a couple of plainclothes cops to me like leeches, and turned me loose...
Last week, enterprising French Journalist Merry Bromberger, a man with good sources, turned up the story behind Wybot's fall. Last May 30, as De Gaulle was conferring in his quarters at the Hôtel La Pérouse, where he had held court out of office almost every Wednesday for 13 years, his son-in-law rose, suspiciously examined a cornice, lifted a piece of carpet, and discovered microphones...
McLaughlin, a journalist as well as a novelist (he is an associate editor of TIME), has an unerring eye for the Manhattan landscape, a faithful ear for the speech of the superficially smart. Although he never preaches, and the explicit statement of his theme never rises above the pitch of party talk, the reader is not allowed to forget the book's title; it would be a different story if any of the characters really had a notion...
...Every bloody so-called journalist in this country looks to the government," cried dhoti-draped Ramanath Goenka, India's top newspaper owner (eight dailies, three weeklies), last week. "I will definitely close down my papers if I have to. There is nothing else to do. They think I'm bluffing." Goenka's outburst was aimed specifically at a government move to raise the wages of Indian newspaper employees. But beyond that, it was aimed at a general situation that last week saw Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's government taking a new hitch in the noose...
President Siles appeared at the edge of the mob. He marched straight through, headed for M.N.R. headquarters two blocks away, and the crowd followed. There, from a balcony, he pleaded that "shouts do not solve anything, and violence is useless," but he denounced TIME's correspondent as a "journalist without scruples." Out of control, the rioters followed their leaders to stone Point Four's La Paz offices and smash 25 heavy trucks and pickups of the U.S.-Bolivian Roads Service. During one of the attacks, a 15-year-old student was killed...