Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...France and the rest of the world après De Gaulle. When mirage became reality on the evening of April 27, our correspondents were well-prepared to cover the cataclysm. Sensing in advance that France would say non to the general, Paris Bureau Chief William Rademaekers, a veteran European reporter, had assigned six correspondents-all French-speaking-to cover France's leading politicians, four major provincial cities and news sources in the capital...
...wanted to do something relevant." Albert, who earns $17,000 a year, went to Yale Law School, clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron ("Whizzer") White, and taught at the London School of Economics. He now teaches a course at the Columbia Law School. Others, like Ron Pollack, a veteran of Mississippi civil rights campaigns, are paid only...
...generally agreed. For Finch, 13 years Nixon's junior, it was, as he recollects, "all very flattering." On Nixon's urging, Finch returned to California two years later to get a law degree from the University of Southern California. Against Nixon's advice, he decided, at 26, to challenge veteran Congressman Cecil King in a strongly Democratic district. Two years later, he tried and lost again. In 1962, he returned Nixon the favor, advising him against his disastrous run for the California governorship. For once, he stayed out of a Nixon campaign...
...YORK TIMES'S ROBERT B. SEMPLE JR. Simultaneously witty and scholarly, Semple, 32, came to the Times's Washington bureau six years ago from the National Observer. A smooth writer and sharp analyst, he replaced Veteran Max Frankel (who became Washington bureau chief) at the White House in January. Although Semple does not get from Nixon the sort of spoon-feeding that L.B.J. used to give the Times, he has developed solid White House sources and used them to produce, for example, the most revealing backstage report of how Nixon arrived at his ABM decision...
...questioner at presidential press conferences, Kaplow, 42, effectively employs his broadcast-trained voice to push Press Secretary Ron Ziegler hard at daily briefings. He has covered Nixon longer than any of the other new reporters, has interviewed him frequently since his 1956 vice-presidential campaign. A 14-year network veteran, Kaplow thinks quickly, and manages to capsule presidential news neatly in the limited time...