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...nonetheless, a grudging retreat, and its course was mined with restrictions that not only invited continued criticism from the press but limited the scope and effectiveness of the reporting job that Dulles finally conceded to be necessary, or at least inevitable. No cameramen-for press, newsreel or TV-will be allowed into China (although reporters may carry cameras). Representation will be limited to the big newspapers, magazines, wire services and broadcasting companies that 1) can now afford to maintain one "fulltime American correspondent overseas" and 2) are prepared to send one staffer for "six months or longer" to China...
...Take that!" said the little man, and as newsreel cameras whirred, he slapped the young peer in the face. "It didn't hurt me a bit," said 33-year-old John Edward Poynder Grigg, second Baron Altrincham of Tormarton, as his assailant was led away, but throughout the length and breadth of the United Kingdom there were those, particularly among his peers, who felt Altrincham had got off a lot too easily. In Bow Street court next morning, the slapper proved to be a paid agent of a group of nostalgics who call themselves The League of Empire Loyalists...
...Aqaba coast. But the barbed-wire barricades that police threw around the Parliament building last week proved an unnecessary precaution. The 5,000 Jerusalemites who turned out for the right-wing opposition Herut Party's mass-protest rally listened to speeches, shook their fists only when the newsreel cameras were on them, and shuffled off home without more than a jeer or two at the cops...
...seen about Fifth Avenue, in a newsreel theater, and it was known that he had a family (a son, now 26, and a daughter, now 20), but nothing humanly attractive was known about him. To a questioner he once said tartly: "I am not interested in my personality...
...clash over "legitimate newsgathering rights" resulted last week in a decision by U.S., Canadian and European newsreel and TV film groups to boycott the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. The newsreelers wanted to use up to nine minutes a day of footage filmed by their own cameras. But the Australians refused, fearing that the edge would be taken off commercial resale of Olympics movies. Instead, they offered to hand out three minutes of their own film daily to all comers. The film pool resented being limited to a handout, announced that they would make no movies of the Olympics...