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Hugh Sidey, LL.D., columnist...
...government into circulating a letter to private companies asking them not to hire women. On the other hand, two Cabinet ministers asserted in a TV interview a few weeks ago that women should be allowed to work in order to ease the country's labor shortage. When a newspaper columnist wrote that male and female students at the local university were mingling in an immoral fashion, the women at the school sued him for circulating false rumors about the immorality of women, a violation of Islamic law. He spent two days in jail...
...disarmament later this month. Said he diplomatically: "I have utterly no objection. It's part of the rules and perfectly appropriate for anyone who has been out of Government service for more than a year." Those questioned, however, found it odd. "What are you supposed to say?" asked Columnist Art Buchwald, a family friend. "Ah, yes. I believe he knew Stalin well...
...foot soldier in the service of truth, newspaper division, for nearly three decades. He has risen from the Sandhill Citizen of Aberdeen, N.C.-a backwoods weekly for which he sold ads, laid out pages and, incidentally, covered the news. He has been a White House correspondent, Washington bureau chief, columnist and bestselling author (A Time to Die, about his role as mediator in the 1971 Attica rebellion; Facing the Lions, a 1973 political novel...
...just left the A.P. It's down in the bar, drunk." He inks an indelible portrait of Lyndon Johnson, who liked to hang the Presidential Seal on a bale of hay at his Texas ranch, hold a brief press conference and ride off on his horse. The columnist also remembers an intense young man who showed up in his Washington office with fantastic tales of U.S. duplicity. Wicker sent him away for lack of proof; three years later the visitor, Daniel Ellsberg, returned to the Times with the Pentagon papers...