Word: counterattack
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...insurance companies (Newark is the U.S.'s second-largest insurance city) took out options on suburban sites, blueprinted plans to take their bulky payrolls out of the city. Then early in 1953, a handful of worried citizens, encouraged by the Newark News, sat down to map a counterattack against apathy and decay. Says President Robert Cowan of the National Newark & Essex Banking Co.: "Up until that time, it was always 'nothing can be done.' " This time things were different...
...Counterattack. The truckers themselves were not immune to back-alley tactics. Judge Clary noted that their public relations firm. Manhattan's Allied Public Relations Associates. Inc.. "attempted in a limited degree to use the Byoir technique of phony organizations to attack the railroads." But he added that "wiser heads" in the Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association called a halt to the program...
...open a supply route to their Czarist allies. Within the game's allotted three days, the Marines seized the road leading to the Dardanelles straits, the goal which the Anzacs of 1915 had glimpsed so briefly from the heights of Chunuk Bair just before Kemal Ataturk launched the counterattack that wrecked the Gallipoli expedition. This time the Marines joined with the Turks to frustrate an imagined Russian drive for the same goal, a goal for which Russians, Czarist and Communist alike, have striven since Peter the Great said: "I'm not looking for land; I'm looking...
...from his rating in television, Murrow is a VIP's VIP. After dinner at the White House on Dec. 7. 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt confided to him just what losses the Japanese had inflicted at Pearl Harbor that morning. When his broadside against McCarthy provoked the Senator to counterattack, President Eisenhower pointedly described Murrow as his friend. Carl Sandburg calls him a poet. He is a longtime friend-at-the-bar (Scotch, a little water, no ice) of Sir Winston Churchill. Interviewer Murrow is often more celebrated than the celebrities on Person to Person, sometimes must work to bridge...
...Counterattack. Soon after Hoiles took over, the evening News reversed its longtime policy, began to squawk "socialism" at many programs that had widespread support among business and professional leaders. In quick succession the paper 1) helped defeat a proposal to fluoridate the city water, 2) successfully opposed a municipal parking project to relieve downtown congestion, 3) cold-shouldered a fund drive for the community-backed convalescent home, and 4) denounced the city council's plans to replace a 50-year-old public library. The News's editorials on the library issue finally jolted civic leaders into counterattacking with...