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...Pyramids & Purges. Recalling the Syrian defection from the United Arab Republic, which opened Nasser's eyes to the number of "reactionary elements" surviving at home, he dissolved the National Assembly and his National Union Party, announced a complicated triple pyramid of electoral arrangements in advance of "free" elections, to be held perhaps next year. At the peak of the pyramid will be a single list of carefully screened candidates who "believe passionately" in Nasser's brand of socialism...
...course called television communications. Built like a halfback (6 ft. 2 in., 195 Ibs.) turned fashion model, the blond, handsome senior splashes through a tough routine four hours daily, gradually shortening the distances he swims and steadily stepping up the pace. "It's just like a pyramid," says Bittick. "You start at the bottom and work up to the peak...
...Heroes. Since the emphasis in the Special Forces is on organizing and teaching partisans-so that they in turn might fan out and pyramid their own numbersthe men are chosen for their high intelligence and maturity as well as for their physical courage. "This is no place," says Group Commander Ike Edwards, "for the hot-blooded hero type." All Special Forces recruits must have at least a year's prior military service, must be qualified paratroopers; unlike conventional paratroopers, they make all their training jumps by night. Their 38-week training course is a killing tenure of unrelieved work...
Lindstrom's indictment of the American daily is sweeping and complete; he defends newspapers on only one count, that of writing. The newspapers, he says, are the last home of clear, simple English, although he does not approve such journalistic fetishes as the "pyramid style" and the "five W's" leads which second-rate newsmen consider the heart of journalistic form. Lindstrom's difficulty is that his indictment is too broad: not everything is wrong with the daily newspaper, and not all the decay is entirely the newspaper's fault...
...will wait for the right telling, but when he implies that the right telling can be found in the newsmagazines, I must disagree violently. On the contrary, the watered-down news of the newsmagazines is symptomatic of everything that is wrong with journalism. The newsmagazines have abandoned the restrictive pyramid style and write their stories entertainingly, but this does not mean that they tell the news comprehensively or well...