Word: affectivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Railroads, Tariffs, Senate . . . The public has a right to know in detail about such matters. But none of these things so vitally affect the public as the press, daily and periodical. The public gets no news in regard to the news...
Since it involves basic Government policies that affect the lives of all citizens, the "growth" controversy may be the most important domestic issue of the 1960 campaign. But so far it has had little impact on public opinion. As the public sees it, the No. 1 economic issue by far is the high cost of living. Paradoxically, the public feels, by a margin of 8 to 5 in a Gallup poll, that the Democratic Party, rather than the Republican, is more interested in trying to hold down prices. In public opinion, apparently, the long spell of price upcreep beginning...
Reston has no compelling outside interests-except those that affect his work. "Mr. Reston," says Mr. Krock, "is not exactly what you would call a cultivated man." Reston says he has not read a novel in 20 years-but he has read practically every nonfiction work that he thought would be valuable in improving the way he does his job. This self-education has helped make Reston a reporter who can write well on almost any subject from the public appeal of Elvis Presley to the pitfalls of relating contemporary America to the decline of Rome. Says Managing Editor Catledge...
Said his even-toned statement: the U.S. will not intervene in Cuba, has "real sympathy" for agrarian reform and other "Cuban ideals." The U.S. will go on objecting to Cuban violations of its own and international law that affect U.S. citizens. Moreover, the U.S. is considering solutions to its difficulties through "appropriate international procedures," e.g., the World Court...
...line-of-sight paths. When a message (Teletype, code or facsimile) is to be sent to Hawaii, an 84-ft. dish antenna at Annapolis, Md. is pointed at the moon. If the weather is overcast, the signal is aimed at the moon's calculated position-clouds do not affect it. The 100-kw. signal fades to a faint whisper during its 480,000-mile trip, but it slants down from space in an admirably dependable manner. In the heavy magnetic storm of November 1959, the moon relay got through to Hawaii when all other radio links failed...