Word: stenotypist
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...Fortnight ago, when moderate Premier Pierre Ngendandumwe was installed to check Peking's rising influence, nobody doubted that the Chinese would respond. Then the Premier was gunned down on the steps of a Bujumbura hospital. But the man who was arrested was a local African employed as a stenotypist in the U.S. embassy. Immediately, the noisy cry echoed through Africa: "Imperialist plot...
...knows him says that Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Robert Morgenthau is a chap of ability and good will. But he has what Madison Avenue discreetly calls "a projection problem." Every time he smiles it appears that he has fractured his face. His voice has all the emotion of a stenotypist reading back a transcript. His campaign is chaotic. Things recently got so confused that Vice President Lyndon Johnson disgustedly canceled a Harlem campaign tour with Morgenthau. When Jack Kennedy came to town, Morgenthau got his picture taken with the President-who spent most of his time chatting with Nelson Rockefeller. Morgenthau...
...tense session. Said Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey: "I recall that there was not one smile, not one jest." It was highly secret. Near the end of the day, Admiral Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, noticed a stenotypist at work. Witness Radford flushed darkly, said that if he had known any record was being made, his answers would have been far different. Virginia's veteran Democratic Senator Harry Byrd suggested that the transcript be burned. It wasn...
...political campaigner. Ike was up every morning at 7, by 8:30 was meeting with members of his 27-man staff in their second-floor offices at Denver's Brown Palace Hotel. Sitting behind a seven-foot mahogany desk, Ike spent his mornings dictating speeches to a male stenotypist, conferring with his staff or answering letters...