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...comes to a showdown. We don't talk much these days about the "special relationship," but everyone knows that it still exists. We share more than just a common language-our men have died side by side in two wars. As for our being "ungovernable," Eric Sevareid has been listening to too much saloon-bar talk...
...Wilson soothingly explained: "While I have been away, in fact nothing has happened. But I come back and find not only journalists and commentators but some politicians rushing about like wet hens as though some devastating crisis had hit the country." He was particularly irked by U.S. Commentator Eric Sevareid, who, after a quick tour of "the kind of cocktail party circuit in the square mile of London where all the hot gossip occurs," had told his American television audience that Britain was "drifting slowly towards a condition of ungovernability" and "sleepwalking into a social revolution." This sort of talk...
...entire issue of the New York Times Magazine last week was devoted to a minute-by-minute chronicle of the six days that Author John Hersey spent with him in the White House. He was interviewed live for an hour on television by CBS'S Walter Cronkite, Eric Sevareid and Bob Schieffer. He took a 20-hour whirlwind tour to New Orleans that included his landmark speech on Viet Nam at Tulane University of Louisiana, an address to the Navy League of the United States, a hard-hat groundbreaking ceremony for a library at Lake Pontchartrain and a trip...
With Cambodia going down the drain, four provinces of South Viet Nam lost [March 24], Thailand turning neutralist and the Philippines re-examining its commitments, where are the great sages now who ridiculed the domino effect? Where are you now, Sevareid, Cronkite, Chancellor, Brinkley, Reasoner, Newsweek, TIME? Let's hear it for the media party line and adversary mischiefism...
Across the world, the public is still struggling to get a handle on the new U.S. leader. European commentators have generally tried to find Ford parallels in Harry Truman. Ettore Delia Giovanna, 61, Italian television's version of Eric Sevareid, has been presenting the President as "a noble expression of the average American-that average American which has made America great and powerful." Like many U.S. newsmen, European editors have dwelt more or less heavily on Ford's supposed lack of intellectual heft...