Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blind Spot. How do reporters strike back? In Manhattan, one enterprising newsman carries a child's metal "cricket" toy; it fits snugly into a pocket and emits loud rhythmic pops that drive sound technicians to desperation. In Chicago, a veteran journalist sprinkles his news conference questions with profanity ("Damn it, Senator, what the hell are we gonna do about the farm surplus?"). Another complies willingly when asked to pose for a reporter-at-work shot, then scrawls large obscenities into his notebook under the camera. In Los Angeles, ingenious still photographers-who are on the reporters' side-have...
...authority on Soviet affairs, Journalist (London Observer) and Author (Cracks in the Kremlin Wall) Crankshaw has had ample occasion to study political terror. But when he turned from the Communists' MVD to the Nazis' Gestapo, he found a vast difference in attitudes. There was a mechanical ingenuity to Gestapo methods of torture (a small machine for crushing testicles), and a pseudo-scientific slant to many of their regular duties (victims with perfect teeth were withheld from the incinerators in order to provide the Nazis with perfect skulls for paperweights; the heads of dead Jewish Communist commissars were pickled...
...invitation was ever tendered to Hiss. The Whig-Cliosophic Society, which sponsored the talk, originally asked a total of seventeen luminaries--including Vice-President Nixon, Generals MacArthur, Ridgeway, and Marshall, Governor Folsom, Senators Eastland, McCarthy, Kefauver, and George--to address undergraduates. Only Kefauver, and two others, Senator Sparkman and journalist William S. White, agreed, as did Hiss, to come...
...Call of the Muezzin. The novel's hero, Dirk Celliers, is a free-lance South African journalist nosing around Cairo for stories to send his London editor. An Egyptian officer friend, Major Khaled, takes him to a cell meeting of the League of Free Officers, a conspiratorial group bent on overthrowing the monarchy. Dirk quickly learns that the revolt has been triggered by a teeth-gnashing shame over the defeat in Palestine ("The hand grenades from Italy which had blown up as soon as you pulled out the pin . . . Spanish field guns for which the wrong shells had been...
Only Kefauver, and two others, Senator Sparkman and journalist William S. White, agreed, as did Hiss, to come...