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Beyond Authority. Sam Yorty can rightfully say that he lacks the power to do many of the things that need doing. He himself once said: "Any man who reads beyond the second paragraph of the city charter would be out of his mind to run for mayor." But Yorty ran and won, and he has shown by his actions as mayor that, when he wants to, he can exert a good deal more power and responsibility than he admits to having. Despite his faults and his constant feuds-Angelenos tend to be either 100% for him or 100% against...
...that Charles de Gaulle made his first appearance on TIME'S cover. Then he was just emerging as a world figure-in wartime London, rallying his countrymen in and outside occupied France to his Free French cause. "In the field," said the closing paragraph of that first De Gaulle cover story, he has "only 40,000 men, but in France he is building a greater army . , . If Vichy and Hitler begin to crumble, the Free French in France will have not merely a fifth column. They may have the nation...
...standard answer to a routine question asked all visiting Arab states men - so standard, in fact, that even the New York Times, which is notably sympathetic to Israel, lodged it in the last paragraph of a story on page...
Without checking with anyone else in the room, Alford moved the false news. At 4:33, A.P. sent a bulletin to its 8,500 members reporting that Meredith was dead-and 21 minutes later a fuller paragraph went out, repeating that Meredith had been killed from ambush. For a little more than half an hour the blunder stood. Finally Alford asked an Appeal staffer: "You do have Meredith dead, don't you?" And at 5:08, A.P. got off the overdue correction bulletin...
...Times gets off only a fraction more easily. "By including so much, it sometimes obscures to the point where it might as well be omitting. But first find the story- itself a task demanding unfaltering and intrepid application; then struggle through the opening paragraph- a grave test of nerve and skill; and finally master the rest of the story paragraph by paragraph-an exercise requiring something near to gallantry; and one will, I believe, be as well informed as by reading any other newspaper, and sometimes much better. But there is no reason why it should be made so difficult...