Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close your story on Edward R. Murrow with the comment that TV journalism as a whole is not much good despite its Kcasional brilliance. Please do not be too lard on it. To really appreciate TV network-news shows-and TIME-a person must live in a provincial town like San Antonio. Were it not for TV and radio, we would have to wait a week to learn anything about events other than who shot whom in what tavern...
Missing Pots. More sober comment came from such thoughtful Europeans as Thierry Maulnier. who wrote in Le Figaro: "The Russian people can ... see in the sky a brilliant star which carries above the world the light of Soviet power, thanks to millions of pots and shoes lacking." And France's Combat pointedly declared: "We ourselves would like it if the Russians would put some of their pride into the evolution of a better world -an end to the world of concentration camps...
Khrushchev brushed off Reston's request for comment on Soviet political and economic developments,* hammered away at what he clearly felt to be the prime consequence of Russia's celestial showpiece-the demonstration that Russia was no longer the inferior of the U.S. and could no longer be treated like one. The Western disarmament proposals "are conditions of the strong for the weak." he complained. "They sound something like an ultimatum . . . Mr. Eisenhower tries to deal with us as with his satellites . . . But one cannot deal with us in that...
...until I have consulted with counsel, I shall reserve further comment...
When asked by a newsman to comment on "the apparent division of effort in missile and satellite programs," Hynek said...