Word: newsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moscow, an observant reporter remarked on the unusual bustle of activity around the U.S. military attaché's office; he was immediately pledged to silence. Out at Sheremetyevo Airport a few hours later, a British newsman spotted the U.S. air attaché's car and came up to cadge a ride to town. Then he spotted two strangers in the back seat, decided not to intrude-and missed the story of his life...
Seized by one of his periodic fits of yearning for a life of contemplation, India's normally bustling Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, 71, indiscreetly confided to a British newsman that it would be "best if I retired-best for me and best for India." So many cries of protest flooded into New Delhi from all over India that the wily Prime Minister was forced to correct the record: "There is no thought in my mind at present or in the foreseeable future of my retiring, so there need be no speculation about...
Died. Frank W. Taylor, 73, tough, crusading newsman who during a brilliant 27-year reign as managing editor of the old St. Louis Star-Times more than quintupled his paper's circulation, won the opposition Post-Dispatch's accolade as its professional "Public Enemy No. 1"; of a stroke; in Green...
...retiring Secretary Thomas Gates, sighed at the thought of educating the fourth Secretary in eight years, and some recalled the memory of the lackluster regime (1953-57) of another automan, General Motors ex-President "Engine Charlie" Wilson. (In an echo of Wilson's oft-quoted remark, a newsman asked McNamara: "Do you believe that what's good for Ford is good for the country?" Replied McNamara: "I shall act in the interest of the country. That is all I will say on the subject...
...grounds of the old Imperial Palace in Peking, rows of plebeian cabbages crowded up to the foundations. In the city not a taxicab could be found because the drivers were out collecting manure. Canton schoolchildren scurried out of class to plant vegetable gardens in vacant lots. To a foreign newsman, Premier Chou En-lai moaned that China this year had been visited by the worst combination of natural disasters in the century. No fewer than 133 million acres (one-half of the arable land) had been blistered by drought, tattered by storms or chomped bare by grasshoppers...