Word: upi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. H.L. STEVENSON, 65, journalist; after a long illness; in Stamford, Connecticut. Stevenson's combination of folksy wit, a strategically deployed Southern drawl and unbending standards made him a living legend at the UPI wire service where, over 31 years, he rose from reporter to editor in chief. Early assignments included the emerging civil rights movement; his tenure at the top coincided with the fall of Richard Nixon and the re-emergence of China, where Stevenson played a key role in the opening of Western news bureaus...
Boston's AP bureau chief said he wouldn't hire me because as a woman I'd be "attacked on the streets of Boston" and besides, I couldn't change a tire so UPI would beat me out for the story. This inspired me to take karate because I wanted to come back and break this man's desk in two after I changed his tires, but unfortunately he retired before I could get there and besides, I was lousy at karate...
Cover: Photomontage -- Clinton by Steve Liss for TIME; Johnson from UPI...