To the hard-working newsmen, the first commandment of the profession is: get the story. Following this time-honored tradition under the hard eye of a demanding editor, a good reporter or photographer, haunted by the thought of being scooped, will use any trick of brain or brawn that he can devise. When more than 300 reporters and photographers are thrown together to cover one of the biggest stories any of them ever covered, all the tricks piled one on another can produce a near riot. Last week, as the U.S. press covered Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's tour of the U.S., that is...
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