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Instead of running its own disclosures, the Times was forced to fill news columns with detailed stories on the progress of court action and public debate. Three times on its editorial page the paper insisted that it had seen its duty and done it. Byliners James Reston, Tom Wicker and Max Frankel contributed eight columns to the verbal defense fund (see THE NATION). To its credit, the Times turned over its Op-Ed page to notable personalities who were invited to argue both sides of the question. More than a dozen dissertations were printed, and each side got fair play...
...William Blair have examined a list of nearly 100 names in the search for a successor. They talked to about 25 men, including several well known to the journalism fraternity: Paris Review Editor George Plimpton, former Saturday Evening Post Editor Otto Friedrich, onetime Newsday Publisher Bill Moyers, Columnist Tom Wicker, and London Bureau Chief Anthony Lewis of the New York Times. Last week Cowles and Blair finally decided on a dark horse: TIME Senior Editor Robert B. Shnayerson...
...obituaries. To begin the new feature, the death notices were banished to the second section, making room for a dizzying diversity of views and opinions that perhaps only the Times, with its great prestige, could bring together. Regular Columnists James Reston, C.L. Sulzberger, Russell Baker and Tom Wicker share the space with outside contributors, who differ widely in political philosophy (from New Leftist Herbert Marcuse to Right Wing Libertarian Murray Rothbard) and in personality (from Burma's ascetic rebel U Nu to baseball's syntax-smashing Casey Stengel...
...Copies of 16 of these documents, which deal primarily with the bureau's surveillance of radical black and student groups, were forwarded to places where the thieves thought they would do the most good-or harm, as it were, to the FBI. Among the recipients: liberal Columnist Tom Wicker of the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, South Dakota Senator George McGovern and Congressman Parren Mitchell, a black Democrat from Maryland...
...wicker basket held by one soldier attested to the exploits in the neighboring country, a country most Vietnamese consider to be much more inferior and more backward than their...