Word: newsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newsmen were almost mute. Surely De Gaulle had reported to Ike on his conversations with Khrushchev, on his belief that worthwhile concessions can be wrung from the Soviet leader at the summit?but no one could think of a question. "Why didn't you ask him?'' a discouraged U.S. newsman snapped at a visiting Frenchman. "He does not talk," answered the Frenchman with a shrug...
Snubs & Slaps. The British press rallied around. There were renewed suggestions that Tony be given a title (one newsman suggested he be made Duke of Sussex) and elevated to the peerage before the wedding. In the face of more royal regrets (from the crowned heads of Belgium and The Netherlands, and from Don Juan, pretender to the Spanish throne), commentators pointed out that the snubs were probably not directed at Meg and Tony personally, but were retaliatory slaps at the snobbery of Queen Elizabeth, who has failed to attend, or to send a representative to, many of the weddings...
Sudden Tantrums. For informal occasions Khrushchev maintains a mental stockpile of maxims and homilies. During his French tour last month, a Russian-speaking newsman, K. S. Karol, accompanied Nikita on the inspection of the Renault factory. Writing in the New Statesman, Karol noted that Khrushchev, far from being quick at repartee, uses his jokes to sidestep awkward questions rather than meet them headon. In fact, Khrushchev seldom listens to what his interlocutors are saying. In the midst of some innocuous remarks by the auto workers, Khrushchev suddenly launched into a homily on the happy lot of the Russian workers...
...nominal head of the committee was Author Waldo (America Hispana) Frank, but the real organizer was Robert Taber, a Columbia Broadcasting System newsman, and one of a group of U.S. journalists who won gold medals from Castro for getting through to interview him in his Sierra Maestra days. Frank has been a guest of Castro, and Taber of a Cuban publisher. Taber drew up the ad, and Frank mailed it out to his many friends among the intellectual set. They got enough names and money to pay the bill, but a more impressive list could be made from those...
...from Reuters, Ltd.-are of the non-Communist press. After reading thousands of words of Nossal's copy, his hosts expressed themselves as more than satisfied with the new visitor. Conferring on him the distinction of being the Western Hemisphere's first Red China-based newsman, they extended Nossal's visa another six months-and even let him bring...