Word: ethicality
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Saigon Bureau Chief Stanley Cloud can serve as Exhibit A of the work ethic in journalism. "In Viet Nam," he says, "correspondents routinely labor twelve hours a day. When you are not covering the story, you are writing about it; when you are not writing about it, you are talking about it." Late last week the Saigon bureau learned the outlines of the secret peace plan reliably reported to have been developed in Paris. Cloud's report became the principal part of our cover story on the negotiations. Timothy James, a veteran of many late-breaking stories...
...strange how people will go along with President Nixon on Viet Nam and possibly give up their lives, but they won't follow the McGovern ethic of helping one's fellow man and give up some money...
...quote President Nixon as telling some New York City parochial school students "The people who came to the American shores didn't come for a handout...they came for an opportunity [Oct. 9]." Perhaps the President's exuberant belief in the Protestant ethic accounts for his overlooking the fact that the forefathers of 10% of our population came to the American shores in chains-as handouts...
...speech, he has extolled their place in U.S. society-most recently at the base of the Statue of Liberty, where he told ethnics, holding placards and flags to make original national identities known to TV audiences, that they built America with their spirit and enterprise. By championing the work ethic and denouncing welfare, by opposing abortion and supporting aid to parochial schools, the President has reaffirmed their values. In smaller ways, too, he has shown that he cares. On his way back from the Moscow summit, he stopped off in Warsaw-a gesture that endeared him to American Poles...
...primary campaign of giving what his advisers called a $1,000 "demogrant" to everybody-even though the proposal was meant to replace some existing welfare programs- McGovern excited the social reformers, who are a minority in America, while deeply offending multitudes who thought it contradictory to the work ethic (see THE ESSAY, page 96). As economist Arthur Okun, a McGovern adviser , puts it. "The things that helped him win the division pennant have hurt him in in the World Series." When McGovern belatedly buried the demogrant idea in August, he alienated many more people, who decided that in the realm...