Word: newsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite his setbacks, Bill Scranton kept up the fight. Said he to a newsman: "There isn't much time remaining, I know, but I have been told by professionals that I am further along at this time than Willkie and Eisenhower were before they were nominated...
...about as tough a decision as I've ever made," Lodge confided to a newsman friend. "What finally tipped the balance was that in the last two or three weeks I've heard from people in whom I have a good deal of faith and confidence that my returning to the U.S. could make a significant difference in the prospects for Scranton's nomination. I felt a tremendous responsibility in this matter. I even felt the pressure here in Viet Nam. One afternoon I ran into a young Army captain, and he asked...
Rarely has one man's vote been watched so closely as Barry Goldwater's on the civil rights bill. He had thought about it long and hard. "I really wanted to be able to vote for the bill," he told a newsman. "This week I've asked every lawyer friend I know to show me some constitutional justification for it. The answer is always: 'All you can say is that you feel a majority of the people are for it, and so you're going to vote for it on that basis.' But that...
Roses of Dallas,* published in France by a correspondent for European publications, Nerin Gun, who covered the assassination. Newsman Gun hints strongly that it is possible that Oswald killed Kennedy out of admiration for Castro-a theory that still lingers in the minds of some U.S. Government officials who cannot fully shake off the suspicion that Oswald was acting for Castro...
...Communist newsman doubling in espionage, Izvestia's Tarasov joins a far-ranging company. Since World War II, Soviet correspondents have been expelled on spy charges from Sweden, The Netherlands, Australia. Testifying before a U.S. Senate subcommittee in 1956, a former Russian intelligence officer who defected that year estimated that some 80% of the Tassmen scattered around the world serve the Russian government as spies. Vasily Tarasov is reputedly the first Izvestia reporter to be unmasked-a distinction that may or may not earn him credit points with Izvestia Editor Aleksei Adzhubei -Khrushchev...