Word: newsweekly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brooding over the Viet Nam war last September, Newsweek's Saigon Bureau Chief Everett G. Martin had some harsh words for the Vietnamese. In a two-page piece for his magazine, Martin charged that the Vietnamese troops performed so poorly on their own that they should be completely integrated with U.S. forces. The U.S., he went on, should also take a much more active role in governing South Viet Nam, from channeling all economic aid to ousting corrupt Vietnamese officials. "What right do the Vietnamese have to expect full sovereignty," he asked, "while depending for their very survival...
Floyd B. McKissick, the CORE leader and an old college friend of Lowenstein's, calls it "relevancy." Barney Frank '62, Mayor Kevin White's administrative assistant, calls Lowenstein's style "political practicality." Newsweek recently dubbed him "John the Baptist," the Saint who prepared the way for Senator Eugene J. McCarthy's presidential candidacy...
...offended by it that he reviewed it-negatively-three times. "This blending of farce with brutal killings is as pointless as it is lacking in taste," he wrote. TIME'S review made the mistake of comparing the fictional and real Bonnie and Clyde, a totally irrelevant exercise. Newsweek panned the film, but the following week returned to praise...
Louise Day Hicks' contradictions and grammatical mistakes helped he image as "the voice of the people," Frank said. He added that Newsweek's article on Mrs. Hicks "was a big plus...
...mythology that is growing around Jarrell started with his death. He died, "an apparent suicide" the papers and newsweeklies reported. But Mrs. Jarrell wrote letters to Time and Newsweek, explaining that her husband was wearing dark clothes and "a favorite pair of brown gloves, that the road was narrow and badly lighted, and that the car brushed past him at approximately 45 m.p.h. bruising his shoulder and glancing the side of his head at windshield height, causing instant death." Like Jay in Agee's A Death in the Family, there wasn't a mark on him, but suddenly...