Word: journalists
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James Newman, a congressional counsel who helped draft the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, said: "This new force offers enormous possibilities for improving public welfare, for revamping our industrial methods and for increasing the standard of living." Proclaimed David Deitz, Pulitzer-prizewinning journalist and author of the 1945 book Atomic Energy in the Coming Era: "The day is gone when nations will fight for oil." Before the U.S. had time to consider fully the potential problems involved with the new form of energy, the nation leaped into the nuclear...
...might have boosted his reported $700,000 salary, Koppel says he never wanted it. When ABC News President Roone Arledge telephoned to ask if he was interested, Koppel said, "Let me make it easier for you," and opted to stay on Nightline. His choice makes sense to TV journalists. Says CBS Morning News Anchor Diane Sawyer: "The format of Nightline has to be the envy of every serious broadcast journalist. He has control and, above all, time to explore a subject...
...Financial Journalist George J.W. Goodman, who writes under the nom de plume Adam Smith, observed in The Money Game, a 1968 analysis of the stock market: "Really big money is not made in the stock market by outside investors. I am talking about multiples of millions rather than just, say, one lousy million. Who makes the really big money? The inside stockholders of a company do, when the market capitalizes the earnings of that company ... I am not making any value judgments. This is the way things...
...CHILD by Frank Deford Viking; 196 pages; $13.95 Many of us have convinced ourselves that children don't die anymore, not in the latter half of the 20th century, not in the United States of America, and certainly not in the suburbs." But of course they do, as Journalist and Novelist Frank Deford piercingly recounts in this spare and vivid eulogy to his daughter Alexandra, "Alex," who died in 1980 of cystic fibrosis...
DIED. Richard Hughes, 77, flamboyant dean of Asia's English-language foreign press corps, whose Bible-quoting, storytelling prowess made him "Your Grace" to generations of journalists; of kidney and liver diseases; in Hong Kong. Born in Melbourne, Hughes covered the North African campaign of World War II and the Korean and Viet Nam wars, and reported on Asia for the Times of London and the Economist. He was the model for the journalist Old Craw in John le Carré's The Honourable Schoolboy...