The Press: Cards Called

Among the 750 Washington reporters who hold White House press cards, two are correspondents for the Russian official news agency, Tass, and one is a correspondent for Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker. Three weeks ago, to illustrate an article titled "Where Russians Can Go in the U.S.," weekly U.S. News & World Report printed an almost full-sized picture of the White House card along with the cards for the congressional press galleries, the State Department and the White House Correspondents Association. * Last week presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty announced that reproduction of the cards in the magazine was a breach...

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