Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...staff Prouvost is a mystery man. He sits in small room with peeling wallpaper at table covered with green baize cloth an gives orders to a small, devoted group of deputies. Matchmen freely admit that they use "American methods" to get stories in a country where most journalist operate with a maximum of tact and minimum of imagination. In Rome, at a elevation of new cardinals, a Match photographer disguised himself as a papal servant, ushered visitors to their seat while he quietly snapped pictures of the ceremony with a camera hidden under his robes...
...opponent. In Washington, two Republican Congressmen (Walt Horan and Russell Mack) have disassociated themselves from McKay's policy. In Oregon, McKay's own state, he is blamed for the shortage of kilowatts which requires dimouts. The Oregon issue is as clear as mountain air: a victory for Journalist Dick Neuberger, the Democratic senatorial candidate, would be a stinging defeat, not just for Republican Senator Guy Cordon, but for McKay and Administration policy...
...fiery crusade against Communism, corruption and President Getulio Vargas, Rio Journalist Carlos Lacerda has gained tens of thousands of loyal friends, scores of vengeful enemies. The 40-year-old editor of Tribune da Imprensa (circ. 50,000) has been beaten by thugs for criticizing the army, arrested for exposing police graft, jailed four times for political reasons, attacked in his home after accusing a high officer of corruption. Recently a pistol-toting hothead tried but failed to provoke the editor to a duel...
Doubt sucked at the foundations of the West's position in Asia. If an Asian had stood against Communism, what confidence could he have left that the West would, or could, support him? Listening to a radio crackling the news from Geneva, a Vietnamese journalist said bitterly: ""We've lost confidence in the French, and now we've lost confidence in the Americans and the British. The only place left to put your confidence is with the Communists, and I can't do that...
...Well, quite frankly, quite a few of your Conservative friends are saying that it would be a good thing for the party if you were to resign some time fairly soon," replied the journalist...