Word: reporter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Crime in the streets of Washington, D.C., Mafia activities in Buffalo and campus disturbances at Harvard are the focal point for this report on "The Violent Americans...
...White House last week to report on this week's cover story, Correspondent Simmons Fentress was struck by an unusual degree of camaraderie between newsmen and the normally businesslike presidential aides. "The reporters," says Fentress, "were all talking about their internal time clocks being out of phase, and the sources were discussing, their stomach troubles." No wonder Everyone had just returned from twelve days of traveling 24,500 miles and traversing 24 time zones during President Nixon's whirlwind tour of Asia plus Rumania...
...inquest might determine at what time Kennedy and Mary Jo left the Chappaquiddick party and how much they had had to drink. But it is problematic whether such a hearing could legally consider some of the larger lacunae in Kennedy's account. Why did Gargan and Markham not report the accident and why did they permit Kennedy, clothed and presumably dazed, to plunge into the channel to swim from Chappaquiddick to Martha's Vineyard? Was Kennedy trying to establish an alibi when he appeared fully and dryly clothed before a hotelman in Edgartown and pointedly asked the time...
Without Jury. In Massachusetts the inquest is a seldom-used procedure, normally held in private before a district judge who calls witnesses one by one to testify under oath. Reporters, however, will be admitted this time. Such a hearing is "not accusatory," and if no evidence of criminality is found, no further proceeding need follow. But if a judge does find fault, such as negligence, his report is passed on to a grand jury and could then lead to a criminal process. The inquest itself has no jury and no provision for cross-examination of witnesses...
...connection, he explains, takes one of three forms: direct collaboration, limited cooperation, or a refusal to collaborate (in which case a writer is usually not published). The intimacy of the association depends largely on the writer's principles. For years, Kuznetsov chose the middle course, promising to report any "anti-Soviet activities" that he witnessed but refusing to spy on other writers. Once, after Kuznetsov had listened to a disillusioned scientist complain about being forced to work out mass-kill formulas on a missile project, the writer found himself summoned to a meeting on a park bench...