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EVEN before he went into seclusion, Howard Hughes posed unusual challenges for newsmen. In 1944, for instance, he consented, through an intermediary, to a telephone interview with Robert Elson, then in our Washington bureau. Hughes insisted that when he called, Elson was to identify himself by saying: "Hello, Mr. Howard Hughes. How was the weather?" Trouble was, Elson forgot the code question. This necessitated a new round of calls before Hughes was convinced that Elson was not an impostor. In 1948, when we did a cover story on Hughes, he did utter one prophetic statement about his future...
...Victory" [Jan. 3] may win awards for photographers, but in me they evoke only shame. It pains me to witness, albeit vicariously, the degradation of man. Obviously the Bengalis are totally consumed by vengeance and the sick need to retaliate in kind, but I cannot understand how Western newsmen can hold their cameras so still while other men are being brutally murdered...
Though Baton Rouge Mayor Woodrow W. Dumas knew of the planned demonstration, there were no police at the rally, which attracted about 200 people, many of them merely curious. Several white newsmen were present; one, Robert Johnson, may have suffered irreparable brain damage when some in the crowd attacked him for no apparent reason...
Richard Nixon's visit to China next month will be the most newsworthy presidential excursion abroad since World War II, but the number of newsmen along to report it will be tightly restricted. After spending a week in China, Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler announced last week that the U.S. press contingent will be limited to about 80-roughly one-fourth the number that normally goes to the summit with the President...
Ziegler said that the Chinese had "demonstrated great professional skill and understanding." He had bargained the number of newsmen up to 80 from an original Chinese proposal of only ten. Other visiting heads of state have brought very small news entourages, and the Chinese apparently feel that they are unable to deal properly with hundreds of visiting journalists. Yet the group of 80, which will be in effect a press pool for the nation, must include photographers and technicians as well as reporters. Nearly 2,000 journalists had applied. The White House will now have to make the tough decisions...