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...Gaullist plows through 18 pages of violent crime in the Boston Herald, searching for some comforting words by C. L. Sulzberger, and finds instead James Reston's notice that God (Reston has a pipeline) is getting jealous of de Gaulle's pretensions...
...Reston is by no means the only offender, although he was the closest to the seats of spiritual and temporal power. Almost the entire American press has turned its turns toward de Gaulle, as if on signal. That, of course, is their privilege. But in the process, some ideas that deserve debate have been palmed off as fact...
...inscrutable electronic eye. CBS has added 26 hands to its news staff-many of them from the city's muted press. As soon as the strike began, the National Broadcasting Company programmed The New York Times of the Air, featuring such familiar bylines as Washington Bureau Chief James Reston. Capital Columnist Arthur Krock and Broadway Critic Howard Taubman. At first NBC paid the visitors nothing, on the premise that they were really appearing on behalf of the Times. Now each recruit gets a performer's minimum of $50 per show...
...York newspapers will publish again, but they dare not go back to the same chaotic pattern of collective bargaining that produced the present shutdown," Reston wrote. "The present system is intolerable for the public, the unions and the publishers alike. The President of the U.S. cannot censor the New York papers. The Congress is specifically forbidden to abridge their freedom. But Bert Powers, the boss of the New York printers, cannot only censor them but shut them down. What is 'free' about a press that can be muzzled on the whim of a single citizen...
Scant hours after Reston's message went out from New York, prudence overtook the management of the Times. Fearing to upset Bert Powers and his printers at a time when it might still be possible to settle with them, the Times sent out a mandatory order to kill the column. A few papers, such as the Houston Chronicle, had already gone to press with it. The Kansas City Star protested the kill order, but the Times's own outposts printed nary a word. And Scotty Reston. who never before had a column suppressed by the paper...