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...simply been spread too wide for Sadat to argue that the campaign was anything but an across-the-board attack on the opposition. Also rounded up by police were a number of political figures and other notables-including Journalist Mohammed Heikal and the elderly head of the now-defunct New Wafd Party, Fuad Seraged-Din-who obviously had no connection with the incident in June. At the end of his address, Sadat ordered the suspension of seven opposition publications and the transfer of 67 journalists from state-owned newspapers and broadcasting services to less sensitive posts...
...video tapes of Jackie's White House tours helped Smith tone down her Houston drawl to a Vassaresque whisper. Scenes filmed around the capital included one dealing with Jackie's $42.50-a-week stint in the early '50s as the "Inquiring Camera Girl" for the now-defunct Washington Times-Herald. Though the former First Lady eventually covered the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, she never quite clicked with the bulky Speed Graphic cameras then favored for news photography. Said Jackie later: "I always forgot to pull out the slide." As Margaret Bourke-White in the film Gandhi...
...first time, he endorsed "in principle" the concept of public financing of political campaigns, although he did not explicitly support the legislative proposal filed by the now-defunct state corruption commission...
...education of Anthony Lewis had hardly begun. After working for Adlai Stevenson's campaign in 1952, he met an old-time Scripps Howard newspaperman, Lee Miller, who found Lewis a job with the now-defunct tabloid, the Washington Daily News...
...Harvard participants, Fairfield, continued to investigate intelligence activities and wrote a series called "The Wiretappers" that filled The Reporter, a now-defunct periodical, almost cover-to-cover in 1952 and 1953. Fairfield, who now lives in Wisconsin, says Buckley made up the story about News staffers jostling a Crimson reporter at the Forum because no Crimson reporter covered the event...