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...Chicago Sun-Times, when a pressroom foreman decides to clean the ink fountains, he must put eight or ten men on the job instead of the three actually needed...
...Every pressroom has him-the unobtrusive character who is not a professional newsman but who is always around, his duties uncertain, his status undetermined, tolerated and even liked by the pros. But few can boast a more memorable character than Vo Song Thiet, a tiny, bespectacled Vietnamese who bicycled into Geneva in 1954 and has been a fixture of the Palais des Nations' pressroom ever since...
...partition plan went through, but Vo fought on-in his own odd way. Every July, in sorrowful memory of the month when partition took place, he fasted for a week. This July, Vo vanished from his pressroom corner; newsmen remembered that he had talked of going on an "indefinite" hunger strike. He did. Last week, his weight down to 90 Ibs., staying alive only with occasional pinches of salt, bowls of rice broth and fruit juice, Vo totted up his recent appeals to world figures, including U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, Nikita Khrushchev, President Eisenhower, Vietnamese Communist Boss...
...wire-service man with top seniority at the White House, the U.P.'s Merriman Smith, 45, became a newsmaker of sorts himself. He cultivated his perquisites as dean of the pressroom, delighted in his vested right to end presidential press conferences with "Thank you, Mr. President." He used the phrase as the title of one of his two books on his beat, filed a weekly column called "Backstairs at the White House." Last week, after 17 years of covering U.S. Presidents, Smitty was back on his old Treasury beat, and before this week's press conference...
REPUBLICANS Thoughts of Home Minutes after California's Governor Goodwin J. Knight marched before his legislature one afternoon last week to deliver a session-opening message, news tickers in an adjoining pressroom began clicking off a bulletin that all but drove Goodie's 49-minute oration off the front pages. At speech's end the word buzzed through the assembly chamber: Bill Knowland has announced that he will not run for re-election to the Senate in 1958 (TIME, Jan. 14). In California, where the body politic revolves around the uncomfortable triumvirate of Knight, Vice President Richard...