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...with Pat and her entourage, Schecter positioned himself at the pre-selected spot and was able to hold his vantage point. All three correspondents divided their time between the pomp and color of the visit on one hand and the substance of the talks on the other. To gain insight into what was passing between U.S. and Russian leaders behind firmly closed floors, the trio tapped sources among American and Soviet officials and some not-so-official informants as well...
...Lyons. Now Sargent has resigned, and will be replaced in September by James Thomson, 40, Harvard history lecturer and a perceptive Asian scholar. Though Thomson is not a journalist, he was chairman of the Yale Daily News in his undergraduate days, contributes frequently to the Atlantic, and served with insight as China analyst for ABC during the Nixon visit to Peking. His assignment will be to restore close links between the Nieman fellows and an aggressive academic community...
Enemy Conduit. Salisbury's first dispatches were long on description and short on insight, understandable for any reporter seeing a strange and previously forbidden place for the first time. He zeroed in on modern buildings and primroses in Pyongyang's parks, and marveled at the Mao-like everpresence of Premier Kim Il Sung, whom Salisbury expects to interview before his three-week visit is over...
Indefinite Expansion. The editorial benefits of common ownership can be considerable to individual papers. The Cocoa, Fla., Today (48,101) covers space shots with imagination and expertise for the whole chain, via the Gannett News Service. The Statesman in Boise has been filing with local insight for all papers on the recent Idaho mine disaster. The News Service circulates such group-wide features as an entertainment column from the San Bernardino Sun and a music column from the Times-Union. Small papers benefit from staff coverage by bigger ones and in turn serve as testing grounds for technical improvements that...
...movie about a few days in the life of a lad called Benoit. The setting is contemporary-a small mining town in Quebec-but there is an appropriate aura of timelessness about it. Director Claude Jutra (Take It All) approaches the excellent Clement Perron screenplay with such intuition and insight that he manages to make Benoit's initiation at once universal and unique...