Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MINUTES (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Harry Reasoner and Mike Wallace go to Africa to report both sides of the Biafran...
Indeed, its first cover story, May 19, 1961, was a report on the American tourists' expanding affection for far places. Ever since, its columns have covered new resorts, foreign fashions, exotic foods. For this week's cover story on Guide Writer Temple Fielding, who did not really invent travel but sometimes sounds that way, the Modern Living staff was happy to make the most of its latest opportunity to leave home...
Again, Harris' interviewers framed hypothetical situations. For example: "If you were a parent and had a son who came home from the Army and smoked marijuana, would you report him to the police or not?" By 42% to 40%, the answer was yes. On the other hand, in many categories there were big majorities against turning in the son: suburban residents, the under-30s, the college-educated, professional people, those earning over $10,000, westerners and Jews. Curiously, blacks would turn the son over to the police by a bigger margin than whites...
Another question was posed: "What would you do if a son came home from the Army, bringing a supply of marijuana that he sold to his friends for $5,000 profit?" This hypothetical situation evoked a much sterner response: 73% would report him to the police, and only 14% would not. The answer of Leo Adams, a retired electrician of Rittman, Ohio, was representative: "If he smoked it himself, he's only hurting himself. This way he might give the habit to a lot of others-maybe even another...
Freund said that if the individual does accept the Committee of 15's Findings of Fact, this finding will constitute the report of the Freund Committee...