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...solons to saloonkeepers, every wag had his political gag as the election moon waxed bright. The word around the Pentagon last week was that if Nelson Rockefeller believes the nation needs $3 billion more for defense, "why doesn't he write a check?" New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock figured that "the inter partisan confusion could now be resolved if the Democrats would nominate their favorite Republican, Rockefeller, and the Republicans their favorite Democrat, Lyndon Johnson." In the Senate, Minnesota's Eugene McCarthy spotted the reason his favorite candidate, Hubert Humphrey, lost the West Virginia primary: "Hubert told...
...Strange & Incomprehensible." One widespread Western response to Khrushchev's attack on the President was to wonder whether Nikita was "going nuts," as the New York Daily News bluntly put it. "On this assumption," wrote the New York Times's Arthur Krock, "the West must be prepared to protect itself from the very special menace of a deranged operator of a destructive military machine...
Unfavorable Accents. The New York Times's veteran Arthur Krock, admitting that "this is only dope, but American politicians are incurably addicted to its use," passed on this consensus of Washington politicians...
Gathering information for his column Krock may call as many as a dozen top level government sources, as he did in a recent piece on the pros and cons of atomic-test suspension. "But," he says I often now deliberately play down new angles because I am not trying for beats but for understanding. I don't want to have the reputation of a 'scoop' artist That is tiresome for a man who wants to be a solid reporter...
Arthur's Style. In his literary style with long sentences filled with subordinate clauses and qualifying phrases, Columnist Krock often requires his readers to wear hip boots. Says "Scotty" Reston the only Timesman in Washington who calls Krock by his first name: "It's not your style or my style, but it is Arthur's." As such, it is generally worth the effort of wading through. For Wilsonian Democrat Arthur Krock, who has known and reported on every President since William Howard Taft, remains a calm perceptive voice in U.S. political reporting...