Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the word came through that the U.S. Senate had voted statehood for the territory. The news was as cheering for Schulman as it was for most Alaskans, for both he and Seattle Correspondent Russ Sackett had spent weeks in the territory when the bill was in the House, reporting the cover story on Governor Mike Stepovich (TIME, June 9), and both had acquired a glow of personal discovery for the "land of beauty and swat." Schulman blushed a modest red when enthusiastic Alaskans told him that TIME'S cover had stirred enough general interest to help give...
...pockets thus stuffed with pacts, promises and big dreams, Hoffa, by his actions last week, made all the more prophetic the words of the McClellan committee report of 1958: Extraordinary power, "now lodged in the hands of a man such as Hoffa, [is] tragic for the Teamsters Union and dangerous for the country at large." And for James Riddle Hoffa, this was only the beginning...
...Worry. One day TIME Correspondent Jay Mallin slipped through the no man's land from the city of Guantánamo, slogged north by jeep and foot up muddy mountain trails and became the first newsman to bring an on-the-spot story out from the captives. His report...
...Seventh International Cancer Congress in London this week heard the sobering results of a sweeping study of the effects of smoking on the death rate from cancer and other diseases. Author of the report: Statistician Harold F. Dorn of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Dorn's project was begun in 1954 as a check on the disturbing findings from the American Cancer Society's famed Hammond & Horn survey of 188,000 U.S. males. Researcher Dorn threw his statistical net even wider: it covered 198,000 men (and a sprinkling of women) holding Government life insurance...
...Church's Chance. Birth control and the problem of overpopulation is expected to be the biggest issue in the discussion of THE FAMILY IN MODERN SOCIETY. The bishops will probably come out in favor of birth control education. In the words of the preliminary report, "Christians may give support to any government deciding to encourage family planning in conjunction with efforts to raise the standing of living...