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Journalism: International Reporting Hal Hendrix, Fla., News, for stories revealing the Russian buildup in Cuba; Reporting under deadline pressure-Sylvan Fox, Anthony Shannon, and William Longgood, New York World Telegram & Sun, for reporting of March 1, 1962, American Airlines jet crash at Idlewild; Reporting without deadline pressure-Oscar Griffin, Jr., Pecos, Tex., independent, for publishing first articles on Billie Sol Estes...
...after Hendrix College, three years at Harvard Law School and four years as a youthful county judge, Mills fulfilled the first half of his dream by getting elected to Congress. He was 29. Normally it takes considerable seniority to win a place on the prestigious Ways and Means Committee. But Mills reached the goal in a mere four years. Speaker Sam Rayburn, impressed with Mills's brains and diligence, gave him a push. And the committee's chairman, North Carolina's Robert ("Muley") Doughton, author of the dictum that the objective of tax policy is to "get the most feathers...
...uphill odds he faces against the Herald. "That big thing down the street,'' says he, "is a good newspaper." It is. Its Latin American coverage is superior to the News's, which gets along mostly on the hunches and the contacts of Latin American Editor Hal Hendrix, who almost never leaves Miami. In contrast, the Herald regularly sends men south of the border, often in teams, has a Latin American circulation (at $1 per airmailed copy) of nearly 5,000 that goes as far south as Chile. Although not quite as bold as the News...
Phrygia's hero-leader is dedicated, urbane and devout Mario Neroun, who carried his country to freedom and is now desperately trying to hold together its evenly divided factions. A footloose American historian. Wade Hendrix, finds himself deep in intrigue both of the political and the boudoir variety-Neroun has a lovely mistress named Poppy, who is a considerable trial to the dictator's Christian conscience. The characters represent every racial and religious faction-Yonarus, the fanatic chief of police who is also the secret head of the Christian terrorist organization; U.N. Ambassador Othoe, Poppy's aging...
Flashlight & Six-Gun. Two more marshals came and went before Mayor C. P. Hendrix finally found a long, lean hangover from the old West named Floyd Earl. The new marshal took over like the hero of a TV shoot-'em-up. "This has been my home all my life," says Earl. "I felt like I was just volunteering for military service." With neither uniform nor police car to advertise his authority, Earl prowled his territory after dark, wigwagged at speeders with a flashlight, unlimbered his six-gun and shot at them when they failed to stop. Although...