Word: newsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since the Johnson Administration left town. Now President Nixon has found a man with a delicate touch to take on the assignment: Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins, who minded the command module while Comrades Armstrong and Aldrin descended for the moon landing. Though the post usually goes to a newsman, Collins believes he has some unique qualifications for the task. "We can talk very clearly from a quarter of a million miles out in space," said he at his first press conference. "And I don't see why I can't carry over some of these techniques into...
...suspicions are not all that farfetched. Carl Oilman, 27, a cameraman and sometime reporter for San Diego's KFMB-TV, and Louis Salzberg, 40, a press photographer, each testified to having accepted money from the FBI for work he performed under professional cover as an accredited newsman...
...activities became more demanding, he found "I couldn't do this one hundred percent of the time." When, for example, David Dellinger (now a defendant in Chicago) spoke at a rally at San Diego State College shortly before the Republican convention, Oilman "went down there not as a newsman but to gather news for the FBI." It was this occasion that provided the basis of his testimony at the trial in Chicago...
...cover the end of the world would be the newsman's Nirvana. And he would be functioning at the peak of his enthusiasm right up to the very end-because the most important happening that would ever occur would be happening for him. If the promised 15.000 had showed...
...with this appreciation of absurdity that a newsman could "stand at the gate of God, drunk but unafraid." He could be confident in the continued existence of an everabsurd reality in which something is always happening and everything is essentially unchanging. He could take comfort in the fact that men would continue to stumble through with a combination of stupidity and evil intentions, and as a journalist he would always be able to write about the resulting villains and heroes. The Weathermen were absurd and would not admit it. They were inane...