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Token Black. Most people who turned up on the lists were wryly amused and tended to wear their new status as badges of honor. "I prize it more highly than my Emmy award," declared CBS Newsman Daniel Schorr, whom the list described as "a real media enemy." Sidney Davidoff, former aide to New York's Mayor John V. Lindsay, was characterized as "a first-class s.o.b. wheeler-dealer." He was delighted. "The first thing I did was call my mother in Florida and assure her it was a good list," he said. "She wasn't sure...
...Alvin Schorr, a social work expert who had advised McGovern's Senate Committee on Nutrition, also warned that the proposal would be politically fatal and argued that it was much more feasible to reduce poverty by giving the poor a greater share of Social Security and similar benefits...
...have trouble believing his testimony that Sirhan killed Robert Kennedy while in a self-induced hypnotic trance. To the layman, this would be an "absurd, preposterous story, unlikely and incredible," he allowed. The reputation of psychiatric wisdom was certainly smudged when another expert witness at the trial, Psychologist Martin Schorr, admitted that he had relied heavily on the terminology of another man's book to formulate his own description of Sirhan's state of mind. No wonder that one of Sirhan's attorneys carefully asked prospective jurors if they agreed with the opinion that "all psychiatrists...
...tapes, that elicited happy looks from Sirhan's defenders. When talk somehow turned to jigsaw puzzles, Sirhan was heard to remark impatiently: "If I can't do it fast enough-if I can't match the whole picture-I give up." To Dr. Martin Schorr, a San Diego psychologist, much of Sirhan's taped prattle reinforced his own diagnosis of acute mental illness. Schorr subjected Sirhan to batteries of psychiatric tests, which showed, he contended, hypomania and paranoia. As for hypomania, "There is something driving this man." Schorr summed up paranoia as "I am O.K.; everybody...
...NEWS CORRESPONDENTS REPORT: PART 2 (CBS, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). Walter Cronkite moderates as Eric Sevareid, Roger Mudd, Mike Wallace, Dan Rather, Daniel Schorr and John Laurence report on the U.S. in 1968 and the prospects...