Word: newsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign issue has now boomeranged. Critics are saying that because of the Administration's record on Cuba and the apparent flop of U.S. hopes in Western Europe, the U.S. has lost prestige abroad. At the President's press conference a fortnight ago, a newsman asked Kennedy whether official prestige polls "are now being taken." He admitted that they were, but he conspicuously passed up the chance to counter the critics' charges with figures. Instead, he dismissed prestige polls by saying that the U.S. "is known to be a defender of freedom and is known to carry major...
...newsman who has covered Geneva since 1947 says that habitual attendance at East-West conferences results in a tendency to accept the arguments of both sides: "You come to think that the Russians object to controls because they want to cheat, and the West insists on controls because they want to spy in Russia. You reach the conclusion that everybody is equally wrong...
...stomach.'' Said Meredith: "After listening to all arguments, evaluations and positions and weighing all this against my personal possibilities and circumstances, I have concluded that the 'Negro' should not return to the University of Mississippi. The prospects for him are too unpromising." A white radio newsman from Jackson applauded. But Meredith kept on reading: "However, I have decided that I, J. H. Meredith, will register for the second semester at the University of Mississippi...
...that Reporter Desmond Clough confided to 950,000 readers of London's Daily Sketch did not seem like much: Russian trawlers, he wrote, scouted "with uncanny accuracy" top-secret NATO sea exercises. But for refusing to tell a British High Court where he got this information, Newsman Clough earned himself a special distinction last week. He became the first journalist in British history to be sentenced to prison for protecting a source...
...affably wished a happy new year to the newsmen invited to his annual press reception at the Elysee Palace last week. But he refused to discuss the issue upper most in every reporter's mind: President Kennedy's proposal to supply France with Polaris missiles. When a newsman brashly reminded France's President that "Kennedy is offering them to you," le grand Charles turned, stared down his questioner, and replied with heroic restraint: "Are you really sure...