Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After his earlier visit to Moscow, Pravda had pointedly published Dubček's own report on the meeting: "The Soviet comrades expressed anxiety that the democratization in our country should not be exploited against socialism." And Dubček had no sooner departed than the Kremlin summoned the leaders of East Germany, Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria to Moscow for a quick discussion about what to do about the Czechoslovaks. Their problems are real. Every fresh liberalization emanating from Prague adds to the discontent in other Communist nations, whose people would like the taste of a little...
After further analysis, Chinn identified the drug as "phenylbutazone and or a derivative thereof. " A written report of his findings was sent to the track stewards. Nearly 48 hours later, the stewards met, matched the specimen's number with that on a sealed envelope, and ripped the envelope open. Only then did they discover that the drugged horse was Dancer's Image, winner of the Kentucky Derby...
Last month, the Charlotte Observer wound up a searching seven-week report on conditions among North Carolina's poor, both black and white. Reporters Dwayne Walls and James Batten even traveled to Chicago and Washington to discover how North Carolina migrants were faring; most were disillusioned and not doing much better than they had done at home...
...Junior Chamber of Commerce story instead." That fits in with Knight's thinking. "It is our obligation to print a lot of local news," he says. "We do very well at it; sometimes, I must confess, to the point where I feel it is boring." To report this news, the papers hire youngsters fresh from college and pay them reasonably well; otherwise, editorial budgets are lean. In three or four years, reporters generally move on to publications of more national scope...
This hefty, meticulous report on the authors meanderings and experiences in Spain is, he says, "a 19th century English-style travel book." Happily, it is that and much more. It is an unabashed celebration of an old infatuation with a country, and thus has the engaging, slightly breathless quality that is rarely found in modern travel books, now that the world has grown small...