Word: newsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...launched last May with a dummy astronaut aboard, went out of control and was not recovered. Cosmic Ship II, launched in August with animal passengers, was safely lowered to earth, and Nikita Khrushchev boasted that the launching was "a step to man's flight into space." To a newsman's question why Cosmic III weighed 82 Ibs. less than Cosmic II, Khrushchev replied: "It's big enough for a man to eat his dinner inside." It was also roughly twice the size of the biggest satellite that the U.S. has yet managed to fire into orbit...
...week's end the prosecution announced that it would skip over to evidence that officials were silent partners in firms receiving millions of dollars in government contracts. But all in all, it was a poor show. Said one courtroom observer, a Turkish newsman who had been haled into court on countless occasions for defying Menderes' oppressive press laws: "I fought Menderes, but not for this. If this is the best proof the government can produce, it would have been better to shoot the lot the morning of the revolution...
Forever Amberg. The man Newhouse picked to rescue the Globe from its spiritual and economic depression had already accomplished a similar transformation on another Newhouse property, the Syracuse Post-Standard. He is Richard Hiller Amberg, now 48, a grey-haired, hip-shooting combination of businessman, newsman and club-joining civic promoter. On the Globe, Amberg cut production costs, tidied the makeup, concentrated on suburban and local coverage that the internationally minded P-D had begun to neglect, and launched a spate of civic campaigns for better hospitals, better airline service, better traffic safety, and better everything else that would make...
...Lombardo. And as a Boy Scoutmaster, Amberg can always find room for a moving editorial about, for example, small boys killed by lightning while selling Boy Scout circus tickets ("Certainly there must be an es- pecial place reserved in Heaven for faithful little boys . . ."). As an old St. Louis newsman puts it: "Amberg is a bore, but he's a driving bore...
While Fidel Castro was at economic war with one northern neighbor, he was having no problems at all with a second. In response to a newsman's question last week, Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker said that "Canada has no intention whatsoever of imposing any embargo on Canadian goods in Cuban trade." The Cuban reaction could hardly have been happier. Cheered Havana's El Mundo: "In Canada there does not prevail the aggressive hysteria which blinds the United States." The Castro paper ran a cartoon showing Canada's sturdy arm breaking the "Yankee economic blockade...