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Twelve hours elapsed before old (75) General Snyder told Acting Press Secretary Murray Snyder that the President had suffered a coronary. After that, says Donovan, the U.S. public was kept informed of the President's condition with "thoroughness and candor...
...Pentagon, but Wilson points to something else in Murphree's background as an equal asset: a quarter-century of effective service in the vast Standard hierarchy. Such a man, Wilson reasons, should not "get frustrated too quick in this big place." Then, with characteristic Wilson candor, the Defense Secretary made Murphree's position of authority clear. "I think if he gets into a jam between the services," Wilson said, "I will be in it with...
...from the moral conscience of the rest of the country and indeed of the world that is giving men of color -who far outnumber us of the white race-their civil rights, their right to be free and to share fully in the bounties of civilization . . . I must in candor say that the N.A.A.C.P. is vulnerable to attack. It is not one of my favorite organizations. It is as radical on its side as [Mississippi's] Senator Eastland is on his. By trying to hurry too fast, it could violate the spirit if not the word of the Supreme...
...favorite front-page subject in Pravda, a heroic subject for Soviet moviemakers, and the inspiration for at least two Moscow plays. But since Russian playwrights have also been instructed to get more credible realism into their turgid propaganda drama, the exhortations have been marked by some surprising candor...
...listened to his father's serial stories about two characters called Whangdoodle and Whiffenpoof. The saddest moment of Stevenson's childhood-the tragic death of a young girl when a gun Adlai was carrying went off accidentally-is told by Author Ives with great kindness and candor. For the rest, tragedy is absent...