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...trying to get the company's view included. It helps that many of ITT's publicists are former newsmen. Company flacks often go to press clubs, attend the weekly lunches of U.S. correspondents' associations abroad and put in appearances at meetings of journalistic societies like Sigma Delta Chi. Says ITT's Washington News Director John Homer: "It's good for us, and frequently it's good for them...
...institutional parts of journalism have also been slow to change. This year, in a belated gesture, the Pulitzer Prize journalism jurors will include women for the first time-six of them out of 45. Two years ago, Sigma Delta Chi, the 63-year-old national journalism society, invited women to join, and so far about 3,000 have signed on. Fourteen months later the National Press Club in Washington, after much external protest and internal agonizing, admitted women for the first time since the club was founded in 1908. But the Gridiron Club, which fancies itself the most distinguished assemblage...
...transform tough social criticism, by passion and human perception, into art. Even Italian hacks, like Montaldo of Sacco and Vanzetti fame, are hacks on a higher plane. If American film is to mature, its maturity will come from those able to confront Kramer's value system and erase its sigma from socially-conscious flimmaking. As Robert Steel said (in New American Review...
...Prizes in the past three years. Our last previous Pulitzer was in 1963. Thus in this period the Daily News has won three Pulitzers, a feat equaled by only three other newspapers and exceeded by two. During that same period of time, the Daily News has won four major Sigma...
Simultaneously, high White House and Pentagon officials periodically met for Strangelovian "Sigma Games" in the Pentagon. There, McGeorge Bundy, General Earle Wheeler and General Curtis LeMay, among others, devised ploy and counterploy for a bombing scenario with equally negative results. After 21 years of air strikes in the North, a follow-up survey by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Nitze proved the predictions correct; but it was another year before the bombing was stopped. RUSSIAN SNUB. American diplomats tried unsuccessfully in 1965 to secure Soviet assistance in carrying word of a planned bombing halt to North Viet Nam. The message...