Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Randy: But of course . . . I'm having a complete blackout of it at the moment...
...Unden, Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Gholi Ardalan and Ethiopia's Foreign Minister Ato Aklilu Abte Wold-in armchairs round a blond mahogany table. To make the give-and-take as easy as possible, the group agreed to do without stenographers and to keep an absolute news blackout. Then Menzies, a tough Tory of the Churchillian school, launched into an explanation of the Dulles plan: let Egypt own the canal company but submit its operation to international control. When he and the com mittee left 70 minutes later, reporters asked how he felt. "Don't I look...
...editors, the blackout request raised the question: Should the press ever abrogate its duty of reporting the news? All wire services and morning dailies except one readily promised to observe the police deadline. The holdout: the Daily News, where a reporter promised to relay the police request to the city desk and call back. By 8 p.m. Police Secretary John MacDonald started telephoning the other morning papers to get formal confirmation of their pledge to withhold the story. But, said police, at about 8:30 p.m., the News had called to say it could not hold the story; by then...
...responding to the appeal, police admitted to newsmen that Peter Weinberger's survival was now "a matter for conjecture." At week's end, with little to report, newsmen had time to do some earnest soul-searching. Though other dailies continued to print pointed explanations of why the blackout had failed, the News stuck to its story that the police request for secrecy had been made too late. Other newsmen were outspokenly skeptical...
...Leading citizens formed the Clarksburg Non-Partisan Association Inc., held a mass meeting that denounced Cecil Highland's press: "[It has] dominated the city and consistently opposed worthwhile community projects . . . slanted city news, written editorials into news columns, indulged in character assassination, and continues its news blackout of the Non-Partisan Association...