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...cover-girl smile remembered from the days before her troubles all began. To celebrate the occasion, she was stylishly dressed in gaucho pants, a dark, pin-stripe vest and a white blouse, and she was ebullient when she made a brief and jaunty appearance in San Francisco before the newsmen-some of whom applauded-who had covered her story for so long. "It would feel a lot better if I were home right now," she said. Moments later, that was precisely where she was headed. After 14 months in jail, Patty Hearst, 22, was released last week on $1.5 million...
Deportation Letters. Britain's journalists, both foreign and local, were troubled by the precedent set by the deportation letters. In pursuit of stories, many newsmen had dealt with Agee as well as other sources with questionable motives. But the deportations seemed to indicate that the government, not journalists, would decide which sources are proper. The Evening Standard editorialized, "It is true that there may be people in journalism, as in politics, whose work is directed against the country's security and wellbeing. But there is no evidence that Mark Hosenball is one of them." Said Hosenball: "During...
...elevated status was symbolized by two small acts: Carter carried his scuffed spare loafing shoes on the plane; an Air Force steward carried them off. After his rest, during which he caught some sea bass and sea trout off a river dock, Carter responded to the kidding from newsmen about "the imperialization of Jimmy." He put his entire staff aboard a chartered airliner for the return flight. Back in Plains, he inherited another badge of high office: a direct telephone link with the White House switchboard, complete with a device for scrambling any sensitive conversations so possible eavesdroppers could...
Mondale pursued his assignment doggedly-and with more zest than he had shown in his own earlier aborted presidential quest. He improved on a previously humdrum speaking technique, lacing his talks with self-deprecating humor. In the end, newsmen voted his the happiest of the presidential and vice-presidential campaigns. Parodying an oft-repeated line from Mondale's speeches, "We want jobs -not hot air," reporters presented Mondale with a T shirt labeled WE WANT NEWS-NOT HOT AIR. He donned it at the end of an Election Day program that took him from tiny (pop. 2,000) Afton...
...hard to escape the feeling that the press coverage has a lot to answer for. In the pack mentality of campaign journalism, once some characteristic in a candidate is spotlighted-Carter's "fuzziness," Ford's fumbling-it is endlessly insisted on. In Playboy, Carter noted that local newsmen often asked him good questions on the issues, "but the traveling press have zero interest in any issue unless it's a mistake. What they're looking for is a 47-second argument between me and another candidate or something like that." Television coverage bears him out. Charles...