Word: newsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Southerners who were employed by the U.S. Civil Service Commission, were sent into each designated county to open offices and begin processing applicants. Their instructions were clear and un mistakable: Register all Negroes except convicted felons or those who fail to meet age or residence requirements. "All Negroes?" a newsman asked Katzenbach. "Negroes who can't read or write?" "Absolutely," he replied. "Treat them the same as whites. If they have been registering illiterate whites, then register illiterate Negroes." Katzenbach's instructions were fol lowed to the letter. Hundreds of Ne groes simply answered registrars' questions, signed...
...place it wanted to see him: in the pages of the Press. There, in a long interview, the voyager told all: how he had been washed overboard six times, dodged sharks and dolphin in his small craft, suffered hallucinations of ghosts. The Press also ran color photos of the newsman-sailor, tanned, bearded and red-eyed. The trip had turned into a clear scoop for the Press, and the paper savored its revenge. The turnabout, however, had been engineered not by the Press, but by Cleveland TV station WEWS, which had also dispatched a team of newsmen to England. They...
...this kind occurs in one of our bureaus, there is almost always a steady-as-she-goes man on deck who provides continuity as well as expertise. In New Delhi this is James Shepherd, an Indian by birth, upbringing and education, fluent in Hindi and Bengali, a working newsman since 1946 who has been reporting Indian affairs for TIME since 1953. With the reporting of Kraar, Zim and Shepherd (as well as some colorful asides from Indian Photographer T. S. Satyan, who spent two hours on the sacred waters of the Ganges to take one of the pictures...
...West Pointer ('36), Clifton took leave shortly after graduation, worked as a cub reporter for the New York Herald Tribune. He decided to become a career newsman, was on his way to Army headquarters in New York with his resignation when he saw a military parade on Fifth Avenue led by an old West Point friend. Clifton tore up the resignation, stayed in the Army for 29 more years. In Italy, during World War II, Artilleryman Clifton's huge 240-mm. howitzers plastered Cassino with 250,000 shells in 120 days, and Clifton won the Legion of Merit...
...entire world," said President Johnson as he announced the appointment of a new director of the Voice of America last week. And indeed, NBC-TV's John Chancellor at 38 is the best-known person ever to be put in the post-as well as the first working newsman...