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...interference with freedom of expression." Even under the system of self-censorship imposed on publications by the Soviets, it is surprising that so much irreverence got through. But the Reporter employed a rather special system for choosing its own censor, whose name happens to be Vladimir. As a fellow staffer explained the selection: "Well, at the meeting we held to discuss the matter, just at the moment when we were ready to make the decision, poor Vladimir had to go to the men's room. So while he was out of the room, we quickly appointed...
Another Tech staffer added that the audience came close to riot when Jerome Y. Lettvin, professor of biology and electrical engineering, got up on stage to urge students to go home...
...first witness, committee staffer James L. Gallagher, said that the demonstrations "paralleled the policies of Hanoi, Peking, and Moscow." A Chicago police sergeant said the clashes with police were planned over a year...
FOUR years ago, from the topmost balcony of Atlantic City's Convention Hall, a middle-echelon staffer from the Democratic National Committee watched Lyndon Johnson accept the nomination. Today John Criswell is hardly better known outside Democratic politics, but he has nonetheless managed to become the most powerful figure within the Democratic National Committee and the individual in complete control of arranging the Chicago convention...
Ranting Nuts. Thanks to a specially built phone link-up system, the program's guest generally participates as the listeners do - by long-distance from his home. A Manhattan staffer receives calls on three phones, screening out "the drunks and ranting nuts." The twelve or 15 most pertinent questions are put through to the show's moderator, Del Shields. In case the conversation gets libelous or licentious, Shields can push a cut-off button, but he has not yet had to use it. Though the discussion is frequently fiery, about the roughest language used to date...