Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basis of what they were able to see from the necessarily limited vantage point of a VIP tour, the observers reported that the elections were surprisingly unsullied (see THE NATION). But their report was merely corroborative evidence. It was the election results that provided the most eloquent and telling testimony to the integrity of the voting...
Last month Orton made a five-day trip to Leicester to see his father, a gardener. Unlike the old days, he left his friend behind. When he returned to London, Halliwell was waiting. According to the coroner's jury report, Halliwell waited until Orton was asleep, then clubbed him on the head at least nine times with a hammer. After that, Halliwell swallowed "an enormous overdose" of barbiturates and curled up nude close to his lost friend's body. It was, ruled the jury, a "deliberate form of frenzy." So, in a way, was Orton's funeral...
...session in an adjoining room, the doors were unlocked, and the interior of McNeill's office was visible through three door windows. The lawyers also wanted to know why Stephanie Smith had waited from June 13, when she claims to have been abused, until Aug. 2 to report the offense...
Charles de Gaulle's lordly insistence on playing all the international fields has benefited at least one French organization-Agence France Presse. Working under the umbrella of France's cordial relations with some of the world's prickliest countries, A.P.P. men report from 144 nations and territories outside France. Now that the Reuters man in Peking has been placed under house arrest, A.F.P.'s Jean Vincent and René Flipo are the only Western correspondents left at liberty to roam the streets as they please in search of news. An A.F.P. man reports regularly from Hanoi...
...Spanish, Portuguese and German as well as French. As a result U.S. announcements of bombings in North Viet Nam usually scoop A.F.P. coverage. The dispatches sometimes sound prejudiced, since they must pass Hanoi eyes, but they do provide on-the-spot, visual confirmation of the raids. In addition, they report the comings and goings of Communist delegations, give glimpses of daily life in the North Vietnamese capital, and provide sketchy bits of information about the country's economy...