Word: clouding
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Soviet Union last week expelled Correspondent Stanley Cloud, a member of TIME'S Moscow Bureau for nearly a year. Despite repeated inquiries by Time Inc. in both Washington and Moscow, Soviet officials have given no explanation for the ouster, which they accomplished simply by refusing to renew Cloud's visa and accreditation...
...idea was to whip up some frontpage glamour for Conservative Party Chief Ted Heath, whose poll ratings are lackluster as England's general election nears. Tory flacks alerted the press that Bachelor Heath and a blonde were embarking for a sail aboard his yacht Morning Cloud. But Ted sniffed "Absolute nonsense" to all notions of romance, asserting that the lady was merely his sea cook and sailing companion. Then he ran the Morning Cloud aground on a sand...
From the start, Calvert, 49, knew he was dealing with a generation "more sophisticated and better educated" than any before it. And more skeptical: Viet Nam had done little for the image of the military profession, and the Navy was still under the cloud of the Pueblo affair. At Annapolis, Calvert found the engineering-oriented curriculum sadly outdated-symptomatic of the "cultural mismatch" between a hidebound service academy and the young men-black as well as white-he wanted to attract. Some black middies (there are now 38) are even jeered when they try to recruit others back home...
This holds true for all other reporting as well. Western journalists are only allowed to meet top officials under carefully controlled circumstances. Yet Schecter and Correspondent Stanley Cloud, who joined the bureau last September, found the leaders' TV appearances and play in the press invaluable as indicators. After receiving a coveted invitation to the Lenin memorial celebrations, Schecter bought a pair of 6 x 24 binoculars in order to get a better look at Politburo members from the foreign press balcony. "A Kremlinologist could construct a whole theory of leadership," reports Schecter, "on the basis of who talked...
...racism remained the pitiful core of an old bundle of corrupt, totally dishonest political oratory which gave them that feeling." The great danger to Watters is not the overt racist like George Wallace, but the "moderates." like Claude Kirk or Howard "Bo" Callaway who hide their racism behind a cloud of conciliatory rhetoric...