Word: krock
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...York Times. With its 50 foreign correspondents alone, there can be and sometimes are differences in interpretation of the same situation to be spotted by the close reader. Last week readers close and casual were enjoying a dispute of higher visibility between two top Timesmen. The debaters: Pundit Arthur Krock, 71, and his longtime friend and colleague James ("Scotty") Reston, 48, chief of the Times's Washington bureau...
...have differed in the past, e.g., Reston was generally a defender of onetime Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Krock a critic. But Krock thought so highly of his younger colleague in 1953 that he moved aside as the Times's Washington bureau chief so that Reston could have the job, thereby thwarted the Washington Post and Times Herald's hopes of landing Scotty as editor. Their recent differences seem more pointed and more specific. Though Krock never mentions Reston by name in his critiques, there can be no doubt of his target. Items: ¶ Last week Reston cited...
...reaching national consequences: if the Democrats control the Congress next year. Anderson will probably be chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and thus the man on Capitol Hill with whom Strauss must work most closely. Last week, summing up the possible results. New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock, an old friend to both Anderson and Strauss, described Strauss as Clint Anderson's Doctor Fell, concluded: "If Strauss retires voluntarily at the end of his current term, June 30, one of the principal reasons might well be his patriotic recognition that, in the Senate battle against his confirmation...
...Times next day, Newsman Krock, 71, told his side of the story: the 1950 interview was submitted to the White House before publication, and Truman's press secretary assured Krock that the President had pronounced the text "accurate in every detail." Furthermore, at his press conference shortly after the interview ran in the Times, Truman had tartly defended a President's right to give an exclusive interview if he felt like it. The committee's Democrats tried to block a Republican attempt to get Krock's reply in the record...
Cooled off by week's end, Truman admitted, after all, that the exclusive interview did indeed take place, wrote explanatory letters to Newsman Krock and Banking and Currency Committee Chairman Brent Spence...