Word: journalists
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These are only a few of the exotica cited by British Journalist Peter Watson, 35, as evidence of the increasing reliance of the U.S. armed forces on the work of psychologists. Indeed, studies done for the military cost $68 million this year, about 35% of all federally funded psychological research. In his new book, War on the Mind (Basic Books, $17.50), Watson says that the Pentagon's forays into psychology "outrank most other military research projects when it comes to cruelty, deception, ingenuity and sheer absurdity...
Scotty Reston of the New York Times overrated? This seems a melancholy assessment to those many who have long regarded him as Washington's ablest journalist-the role model of an aggressive competitor and fair reporter, with great sources, literate style and Calvinist integrity. The Washingtonian quotes one Reston colleague: "His problem is over-access. He gets to see people others can't see and he believes them and blows their horn." But surely, to be able to quote Carter's or Kissinger's private comment accurately is to provide valuable information. Reston's real...
...fast-food drive-in establishment called Jack in the Box and vague doings as a financial adviser to clients in Paris and Montreal. He has a fondness for fast cars and racehorses, soccer and tennis, and-until he met Caroline -women. The list of his girlfriends, claims Vogue Journalist Gerald Asaria. "would fill several volumes" in the libraries of society magazines...
...fans and young statisticians can recall what happened in the years between Pearl Harbor and V-J day. William Mead's vision is less personal and more anecdotal. In this delightful, ram bling history, the St. Louis-raised journalist sees wartime baseball in its unique social context. To mask the ludicrous on-field play, he notes, major league baseball adopted a stern patriotic image. Players took part of their pay in war bonds, teams staged charity games and donated equipment to the Army. Privately, baseball officials tried to protect their pocketbooks and get their stars deferred from the draft...
...trick is how to walk on water without, as V.N. warned, "descending upright among staring fish." Great novelists are born with the knack. Good journalists must master it. Jane Howard is a good journalist. In fact, she is one of the best of those soft-stepping Austenian observers who seem to glide easily over a situation or a subject without leaving a distorting wake. "My way," she writes, "is to use my intuition as a compass, go where I feel welcome, stay as long as I can manage to, meet whoever is around, help them do what they are doing...