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Each morning at 8 o'clock, three briefing officers, microphones about their necks, stand under a 31-ft. battle screen in a windowless concrete building and crisply summarize everything that has been projected on that screen in the past 24 hours. One recent morning report indicated that NORAD had...
Changed Positives. Kennedy has al ways been a man of positive ideas - but some of the positives have changed. During the 1960 campaign, he effectively used the charge that U.S. prestige had plum meted during Dwight Eisenhower's Ad ministration. In fact, the U.S. had under Ike, and retains...
That evening, while San Juan residents went to street concerts and free ballets as part of the celebration, the Kennedys attended a dinner at the Governor's marbled La Fortaleza palace, with its trickling fountains, croaking tree frogs and nightblooming hibiscus, on the moonlit Bay of San Juan. Before...
It was just a few minutes before show time. In the new State Department Auditorium on Washington's 23rd Street waited 400 anxious reporters, cameramen, radio and TV technicians, as well as an assortment of high school students, foreign visitors and stenographers who had wangled accreditation for the occasion...
* Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger announced last week that even he would see newsmen less often. He said that he will hold only one briefing daily for the press instead of two, until Congress reconvenes to make more news in January. He said the President, however, "will continue to hold...