Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been a long, fascinating, marvelous journey," mused TIME's Hugh Sidey last week. "And now the time has just come for a change." After 17 years as deputy head and then chief of our Washington, D.C., bureau, Sidey is stepping down. I am glad to report that he will continue to write his column, "The Presidency," for TIME. His replacement as bureau chief is Robert Ajemian, most recently the magazine's national political correspondent. In addition to his column, Sidey will doubtless take on other assignments. Writing, after all, is in his blood. Born to a family...
...Ajemian got his start as a sports writer, working for the old Boston Record American. He was hired by Time Inc. in 1952 and rose to become assistant managing editor of LIFE. Ajemian has covered national political conventions since 1952 and is known to his colleagues as a painstaking reporter with an obsessive need to probe behind a politician's rhetoric. During the 1976 campaigns, Bob's most memorable piece, perhaps, was a sensitive portrait of the ailing Hubert Humphrey watching the action from home. "I admire politicians," Ajemian confesses. "They're the best of the survivalists...
This transatlantic furor was set off last week by an incorrect front page report in the New York Times that Jimmy Carter had decided against production of the neutron bomb. For months U.S. diplomats had been trying to win NATO nations' support for the bomb on the ground that its lethal radiation would offset the Soviet Union's 3-to-l superiority in tanks in Central Europe. Now Carter seemed to have changed his mind despite the recommendations of his chief advisers on defense and diplomacy. All week long U.S. officials kept denying the Times report, insisting that...
Daniel Rabinowitz '78, a member of the Southern African Solidarity Committee (SASC) and the first speaker, told the audience and the three Corporation members who were present that "The ACSR report does not end Harvard's complicity in apartheid, nor does it aid in bringing about the destruction of apartheid...
...committee members asked the administrators why copies of the core report were not distributed to many libraries. Bok and Fox answered that accidents happen, Boylan said, adding that neither Bok nor Fox appeared "stricken with grief...