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...overall "new towns" policy. While about 300 planned communities are now under way across the country, most are merely glorified housing developments. Only three-Reston, Va., Columbia, Md., and Irvine, Calif. -are nationally recognized as new towns. Because they must show a profit, however, even these will not be able to soak up more than a handful of low-income people. Without eminent domain and the resources of a government, the obstacles to building a new city are enormous. To acquire land for Columbia without driving prices to the sky, for example, developers had to use all kinds of cloak...
...done? Why do the President and the Cabinet officers and the ambassadors talk to Reston anonymously? And why does Reston accept their information on their terms and write of it in such a nodd circumlocutory way? The questions apply to all Washington reporters, for Reston is but the pre-eminent practitioner of a common...
...case of the Reston column, the President didn't want to dignify Kennedy's objections with a direct answer. so he and his Administration were happy to reply anonymously through the editorial page of the Times. The column served the second purpose, so closely is the Times read abroad, of telling Moscow, Peking and Hanoi just what the Administration was thinking--or at least just what the Administration wanted those capitals to think it was thinking...
Nevertheless, Reston was willing to serve the purposes of the Administration because, as he said later in the column, he believed that in this case he had got on to the truth, and so by printing it he was serving the public, too. Scores of Washington reporters work by the same principles every day. You would prefer your sources to speak for the record, but when they won't, you take it on their terms and try to be as honest about...
...future of NATO is threatened by the re-opening of the Schleswig-Holstein question" without pinning it on someone. Hence when the source is informed but anonymous, the writer casts about for substitutes for "he said, she said" and comes up with curiosities like "it was learned" or Reston's "it is understood...