Word: newsmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next morning, Chairman Powell climbed into his howdah, told newsmen he would preside at pro-Nixon gatherings throughout the state, whether strategy sessions or crossroads rallies. Personable Wes Powell's sweeping sense of authority was evident as he chaired his first board of directors' meeting; behind him hung a chart showing the Governor at the top of the organizational pyramid...
...week's end Jim Buchanan, hungry although not mistreated, was still behind bars, and Evelyn Hill, safely back in Miami, was being kept under wraps by the Herald. Clearly Fidel Castro, who ordered the arrest of three other newsmen last week,*was making a point in his own theatrical way: "foreign" reporters are not welcome in Fidel Castro's Cuba...
...well-dressed Soviet citizenship, Izvestia sent two reporters to a clothing industry convention at Riga (which considers itself "the Paris of the Baltic"). Helped perhaps by the fact that their editor is none other than Nikita Khrushchev's son-in-law, enterprising Aleksei Adzhubei (TIME, Sept. 21), the newsmen got some pungent answers to their queries as to why Soviet readymade clothes are so ill-styled, ill-tailored and ill-fitted...
...occasions en route). Hagerty, who took a dry-run tour of the route in November, even thoughtfully published information on the availability of American cigarettes along the way ($5 a carton in Karachi, none to be had in New Delhi) and-a matter of vital importance to deadline-conscious newsmen-the time differential between New York and each stop...
...lean year for newsmen, too. Both NBC and CBS have decided that this year there would be no Christmas gifts to the press...