Word: newsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supporters accuse him of selling out, have coined a new reading for L.B.J.: "Let's Beat Judas." Southern conservatism is on the rise and, as Southern Senators made clear in Congress last week, the conservatives are not enthusiastic over their nominee. Complained one to touring Herald Tribune Newsman Earl Mazo: "Every time you pick up the paper there's a picture of Kennedy with Reuther or Soapy Williams or another fellow like that." Almost unnoticed, moreover, the Southern G.O.P. has been rebuilding. Patronage grubbers have been replaced by fresh new workers. Admits South Carolina Democratic National Committeeman Edgar...
...million less than the President had asked for. (Afterward, the Senate Appropriations Committee recommended an additional appropriation to restore $190 million of the cut.) That done, Kennedy, Johnson & Co. made ready to get the disastrous post-convention session over with and get out of town. Asked by a newsman whether he thought that the Democrats had made a mistake in scheduling the post-convention session of Congress, Kennedy showed the strain. "I didn't recess it," he snapped, "and I didn't bring it back...
Fray & Frazzle. Of recent books from both sides of the Channel about the greatest battle of the age of sail (Trafalgar, by Oliver Warner; Trafalgar, by Rene Maine), Dudley Pope, 34, British yachtsman, newsman, and merchant mariner, has written the best. In it he tries, and for the most part successfully, to reconstruct the historic engagement as it was seen by both officers and men, not only of the British Navy but of the Combined Fleets of France and Spain...
Even so. the retreat left Ike explosively touchy about the whole subject of defense spending. At his press conference last week, the touchiness suddenly flared into anger when a newsman asked about Lyndon Johnson's charge that the President was still "freezing" the remainder of the extra $1.2 billion that Congress had voted. Ike denied that he had ever frozen any of the money. At any rate, about $476 million of it is now coming out of cold storage, and Ike may yet have to unfreeze more...
...vacuum provided by his competitors, Press Editor George Carmack, 53, a 6-ft. 4-in. Tennessean who rose through the Scripps-Howard chain, moves with the enthusiasm of a newsman who would rather be forthright than first. Carmack's small staff cannot hope to outproduce the Post and the Chronicle, and the paper frequently relies on sheer sensationalism. But with an independence of spirit rare in a chain newspaper, rarer still in Houston, the third-ranking Houston Press has clearly demonstrated that last is not necessarily least...