Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Associated Press Managing Editor Rene Cappon was not ready to let the story drop. He suspected that there might be more to tell, and he was a conscientious enough journalist to put a routine note in his "futures file" as a reminder to check up on Negrón early in 1966. The transit strike finally out of the way, an A.P. reporter made a call to Negrón. Cappon quickly learned that he had another big story...
...style that keeps his book in the mineral world. He handles mountains of detail as concisely as any man can. Ulam has an engaging way of making his material seem contemporary. To describe the small provincial town where Lenin spent part of his youth. Ulam quotes a contemporary journalist's description of a typical evening and adds "If only nineteenth century Russia had had television!" Or he defines the Kadets, or Constitutional Democrats, with the following sentence...
...head of a vastly expanded Ministry of Finance and Economics, was fiery Michel Debré, 54, lawyer and journalist who was mainly responsible for the Fifth Republic's constitution and was De Gaulle's first Premier, from 1959 to 1962. Debré won the unenviable nickname of Père Colère (Old Man Fury) for his ferocious attacks on the Fourth Republic; he earned still more bitter criticism by advocating a hard line on Algeria, and resigned after the ceasefire. Since then, however, he has staged a comeback, in both influence and popularity. As a Deputy...
...Hickock and Perry Smith, methodically shotgunned a family of four to death for no apparent reason, on November 14, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas. Five years later in Manhattan, for even less apparent reasons, the New Yorker sustained an equally violent, scattershot attack by teddy-boy journalist, Tom Wolfe...
...breed, Cameron worked on Fleet Street papers before he broke loose on his own. He prides himself on getting into areas forbidden to other newsmen, and he wangled permission to visit North Viet Nam for a month this fall. His report is a rare eyewitness account by a Western journalist, but it leaves little doubt of Cameron's own emotional commitment: he firmly believes the U.S. has no business whatsoever in Viet...