Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally, at 7:15 p.m., a bulletin signed by three doctors said that De Gaulle had been operated on that morning for "a disease of the prostate"-nature unspecified, but probably the nonmalignant enlargement of that gland which often afflicts men of advancing years. Unofficial word was that De Gaulle would be in the hospital ten days, might need another month of convalescence...
...phone with the Elysee Palace, and the suite next door, occupied by Madame de Gaulle, includes a couple of offices for members of his staff. Even the eleven-hour delay between the start of his surgery and the official announcement was a result of his direct orders. The medical bulletin was not released until De Gaulle himself approved the text...
...Times. More often, though, the ad columns are pure navel-gazing, a catalogue of account changes and personnel promotions for a tiny fraternity of readers who supply the very items they read. In Philadelphia, 90% of the contents of A. Joseph Newman's ad column in the Bulletin is distilled from handouts, a proportion exceeded by the Boston Herald, where...
Mendicant Life. Editor Rabinowitch did not expect the Bulletin to prosper, and he was right. "To say that the Bulletin was founded on a shoestring would be to describe it as overdressed," he says. Despite one of the leanest budgets in the business-currently $24,000 a year-it has lived a mendicant's existence, begging office space from the University of Chicago, money from foundations, handouts from subscribers, art work from a physicist's wife, and articles from the leading scientists of the world. Its admonitory pages bristled with urgent crusades: for disarmament and against military control...
...lieu of prosperity, Rabinowitch happily settled for an audience that amounted to a handful of impressive clock watchers. The Bulletin's 27,500 subscribers girdle the globe-36 in Russia-and they can muster more scientific, diplomatic and statesmanship credentials than any world conference in Geneva...