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As the press got its first look at the movie film of the first hydrogen bomb blast at Eniwetok in 1952 (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), it also got a blunt warning. The 175 Washington newsmen who gathered in the Department of the Interior's auditorium were told that the H...
The mishandling began at the start. Though the film, shot 17 months ago, had long since been cleared for security, foreign newsmen were banned from the briefing. When protests poured in, particularly from British and Canadian correspondents, the decision was reversed. (Russia's Tass did not even bother to...
Monstrous Fireball. As the press showing and briefing ended, it was clear that no one expected the week-long "embargo" to hold. Wire servicemen, moviemen and network reporters rushed the film back to their offices as if their deadlines were minutes away instead of a week. They started still pictures...
But when editors started calling Pearson to find out why he had broken the release date, no one was more surprised than Pearson himself. He had not even been to the briefing, or known about the one-week embargo. Actually, Pearson had got hold of the film script long before...
On the flight back from the Foreign Ministers' conference in Berlin, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles stopped off in Bermuda long enough to flex his muscles in a quick swim. Two hours later he was airborne again, and at sundown, one windy day last week, he landed at...