He went from reporter to assistant managing editor at The Miami Herald in the 1950s and then became assistant executive editor at the Detroit Free Press.

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Flint moved to New York in 1973, working as The New York Times' chief labor reporter, assistant to the national editor and assistant to the financial editor.

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He stayed with the news agency as a staff reporter until recruited by the BBC in 1956 as assistant industrial correspondent.

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He agreed to a meeting in Europe, but then, not long after a reporter stepped off the plane, clammed up and became unavailable, owing to what his assistant claimed was a family emergency.

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