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...streets and signs and buildings are postered over with campaign bills and posters, and the Down East locals are continuously pestered by pollsters and newsmen seeking to gauge the collective will...
...week's end the transition did not appear to be proceeding as smoothly or swiftly as it did following Brezhnev's death. Then it had taken only 52 hours for Andropov to emerge as the Central Committee's choice for General Secretary of the Communist Party. But newsmen watching the streets around the huge Central Committee building in downtown Moscow on Saturday afternoon saw no sign of unusual activity. If the Central Committee, which must elect the new Party leader, was not even meeting, what drama might be unfolding behind the Kremlin's walls? "Our feeling is that they...
...were disappointed to see that Frank Reynolds was not included in your retrospective. Frank was one of the best-liked newsmen in television history. His tragic death last July saddened millions of Americans...
...first news from the closed-door Central Committee plenum came early in the evening. The official TASS press agency wire fell silent and then, as Western newsmen hovered over their teleprinters, the news agency's English-language service clicked back to life, teasingly printing out a test line again and again: "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs." Then came an equally puzzling message. The Central Committee members had "acquainted themselves" with the text of an Andropov speech, reported the TASS dispatch. But had they heard Andropov speak? When the text of the address finally clattered over...
...down at the typewriter this week. This fills him with fear and loathing. What sort of article he will turn out is anybody's guess. But one thing is certain: the military should not expect an Ernie Pyle paean to its bravery in the field. "A bunch of newsmen with baseball bats," Thompson says, "could have taken this island...