Word: timesman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When reporters arrived at a "news conference" by senior Corporation Fellow William Marbury only to hear news officer William Pinkerton announce that Marbury would read a statement and answer no question, Timesman E. W. Kenworthy had had enough. Kenworthy, a grey-haired reporter who has terrorized many a news conference-holder in his day, demanded that Marbury submit to questioning. "It's been more than a week," he blustered at Pinkerton, "since the building was occupied, and we have yet to ask a single question of a member of the Harvard Administration." It wasn't true, Pinkerton protested, Dean Ford...
...years that he has worked in Washington, New York Timesman James ("Scotty") Reston, 58, has become the city's closest equivalent to an oracle. In his thrice-weekly column, he likes to size up the direction in which the U.S. is heading. And if he often finds it is downhill, he usually supplies his own prescription for applying the brakes-or decides that perhaps it will come out all right in the end after all. Whatever he has to say, the nation's leaders are in the habit of listening to and heeding him. With this kind...
...scene, few correspondents performed more creditably than Timesman James Reston. In Cairo before the war began, he visualized the outcome. "An alarming fatalism seems to be settling on this city," he cabled. "There is very little relationship here between word and action. The government seems to be provoking trouble without preparing for the consequences." The Cairo airport, he noted, was more open to attack than La Guardia airport in New York. The men around Nasser, he reported, were more preoccupied with past humiliations than present dangers...
...White House press conference. After discussing the President's views on the Common Market, Negotiator Bill Roth announced that the session was for "background only." Washington Post Reporter Carroll Kilpatrick asked why. "It's background information," said Press Secretary George Christian. "I'm sorry," Timesman Max Frankel broke in, "but if you're going to give me information on that basis, I'm authorized by my editors to say that the White House has no comment on this." So threatened, Roth put most of what he said on the record...
...York Timesman Rusk destroyed the napalm myth, the London Economist just as effectively disposed of another anti-U.S. allegation: that U.S. bombers are indiscriminately killing South Vietnamese civilians. U.S. bombing policy, noted the Economist, is based on "two apparently contrary, yet complementary principles. In certain special zones or in areas where full-scale operations are being waged against the enemy, the bombing is devastating and relentless. But in areas which contain civilians, the most elaborate ground rules are in force to try to stop them from being hurt...