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Cudhea explained that he sends Stafford to demonstrations "as a newsman" and directs him "to shoot for news." After the demonstrations, Cudhea said that he accepts all Administration requests for unpublished photographs...
...Canberra did nothing to diminish a shining performance by Australian Prime Minister John Gorton. Leading his parliamentary cricket team to a hard-won 121-119 victory over the capital press eleven, the P.M. hit seven runs and bowled out one press batter with a style characterized by a newsman as "unpredictable and suspect...
...frontiers of confrontation, it is tough to be a newsman in the U.S. these days. The reporter is spat upon by students, Maced by cops, subpoenaed by lawyers. It is tougher still to be a black newsman. On assignments, and sometimes in his own office, he is mistaken for a messenger boy, a janitor, an agitator. At press conferences, he will be the only reporter asked to establish his credentials. If he is a broadcast newsman, sources will look right through him and talk to his white cameraman or sound engineer...
Moynihan did not have a conventional liberal upbringing. There were books in his home, it is true, but they were always in danger of being repossessed, like the family auto. When he was eleven, his father, a ne'er-do-well newsman, walked out on the family, which partly explains Pat's lifelong preoccupation with broken homes. To provide for her daughter and two sons, Pat's mother became a night nurse and later opened a bar in Hell's Kitchen on Manhattan's West Side; Pat often served as bartender...
AFTER two planes carrying passengers and mail for Israel were torn by explosions, a newsman asked Minister of Transport Ezer Weizman what he proposed to do. "This is not a problem for a Transport Minister," Weizman replied. His meaning was plain: it was a job more suited to someone like his brother-in-law, who happens to be Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan...