Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Going to jail is, for the African, as for the American Negro, a way to assert his identity. Another way is to turn to journalism, a path shown to Nakasa by his father, a compositor and free lance newspaperman in Durban on South Africa's East Coast...
...Fifth and K Streets, N.W., between the Capitol and the White House, is twice as big and contains nearly twice as many figures as its predecessor in an out-of-the-way, abandoned brewery, which last year drew half a million visitors. For Frank L. Dennis, a former Washington newspaperman and lawyer, has spectacularly revived in this age of electronic entertainment the macabre gimmick with which, 163 years ago, spidery old Mme. Tussaud made a killing...
...their beat, most of them being first-class newspapermen. And if they can't or aren't, it's the fault of the editors who sent them there, not of a President, who really shouldn't be expected to understand the complicated psyche of a newspaperman...
...Cast. The cast of characters is different too. Gone from the space program is Colonel Shorty Powers, the public affairs officer whose calm voice reported the Mercury events to millions of TV watchers and radio listeners; he has been replaced by a civilian, ex-Newspaperman (Washington Evening Star) Paul Haney. Mercury Director Walter Williams has resigned to become vice president of an aerospace consultant firm; his job has yet to be filled...
...flying combat missions. One of his first discoveries was that war correspondence is not what it used to be. In World War II, said Mauldin, newsmen joined a combat unit, slogged along with the men, lived the combat life for weeks or even months. But Mauldin was the only newspaperman at Pleiku. "These boys," said he of the station's troops, "are sitting out there like outposts in Indian country"-visited only rarely by correspondents, who fly up from Saigon, stay a day or two, and fly back again...