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Marlin Perkins can go to hell. I saw him once at the Boston Aquarium, looking rather pathetically frail in a business suit, pouring water from all seven oceans into a large vat in one of those symbolic gestures of ecological good will. Some newsman asked him if he felt ridiculous working for an insurance company, and Marlin (sans Jim) just smiled and said that, well, he really liked animals more than anything and Mutual of Omaha let him do his work...
...Kennedy School has had two commencement speakers. Two years ago. Carol Bellamy, president of the New York City Council, delivered the address, and last year, newsman Walter Cronkite spoke
That judgment may prove to be somewhat premature. In fact, Lévesque, 58, based his campaign on a promise that he would seek no new separatist initiative during his second term. Instead, the personable former TV newsman shrewdly concentrated on his administration's corruption-free record, its successful reforms in agricultural and consumer policies and its plans for the province's economic development. His folksy, fast-talking style on the stump also provided an effective contrast to Liberal Ryan's relatively restrained and cerebral campaign discourses on the benefits of closer economic ties with the federal government in Ottawa...
...armed with automatic weapons; an ABC reporter had a gun pointed at his head in downtown San Salvador by a man who then simply drove away; and NBC Cameraman Hermes Munoz was held up by masked men as he left San Vicente. When Munoz protested that he was a newsman, one of the guerrillas muttered, "Newsmen will be the first to die." Indeed, at least five foreign journalists have been among the more than 15,000 killed over the past 15 months; three others are missing...
Allan R. Andrews, the Boston Globe reporter to whom Monday's article was attributed, said yesterday that he got the story straight from the United Press International (UPI) wire. A spokesman for UPI said yesterday that "no newsman went out there...