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...DIED. HAL WALKER, 70, first African-American correspondent for CBS News; in Reston, Virginia. Hired by cbs in 1963, Walker covered the riots after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the funeral of Robert F. Kennedy and the Iranian hostage crisis...
...allies defend him as the redeeming visionary of the latter 20th century, a man who invited people to underestimate him because it served his purposes. As for the private man, he was portrayed as a cold, remote performance artist, and as a humane and generous soul; columnist James Reston called him "an authentic phony"; to George Will, he was "an open book who read himself to the country...
...doctors want to continue to practice and the state allows them to, then the state should cover their insurance costs. Otherwise, we should get rid of them; they're dangerous! If insurance companies don't want to cover unfit or negligent doctors, they shouldn't have to. PETER SMITH Reston...
...details of Reston's rise within the Times, from his arrival as a raw reporter at age 29 to his takeover of the Washington bureau 15 years later, will intrigue any fan of bureaucratic politics. Stacks makes clear that Reston used every ploy of the classic man on the make. He sought and flattered professional patrons. He was useful and devoted to the Sulzberger family, which owned the Times--and to Katharine Graham, who kept trying to lure him to the Washington Post. He made pre-emptive strikes against in-house rivals. He lost only one major battle inside...
...That Reston was genuinely liked, rather than resented, was due in part to another organizational trait: his eye for and generosity to new talent. He helped bring to the Times a stunning array of young journalists: Russell Baker, Tom Wicker, David Halberstam, Max Frankel and Anthony Lewis. His proteges, Stacks says, retained a purer affection for him than did his sons, for whom his work left less time...