Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During this year's Cuba crisis, the White House invoked news-control measures that approached wartime severity. At the departments of Defense and State, no one was allowed to speak to newsmen without a monitor present or unless the gist of the interview was later reported to a public information officer. Reporters were barred from accompanying the quarantine fleet to the Caribbean. The news, filtered through the White House, often came late. By the time Kennedy announced two inspections of Cuba-bound Soviet ships, there had been...
What kind of crisis was this? Cuba? Berlin? Adlai? Taxes? No, it was about Jacqueline Kennedy and her press. As the Times story pointed out, Jackie has been the victim of a noisome tide of gossip stories in movie mags and Confidential-type rags. Month after month, Jackie's picture, and often Caroline's, has been splashed on the covers of such magazines. Teaser cover headlines are calculated to shill breathless readers into thinking that they will learn about the most intimate recesses of Jackie's life. The articles inside never live up to the billing. Samples...
...Kennedys looking on, the President handed out the foundation's first awards for outstanding achievement. The story of the awards was buried under a layer of headlines about Jack Kennedy's first public appearance with Adlai Stevenson since the furor over Stevenson's role in the Cuba crisis, but the caliber of the men who were honored and the depth of their work made important medical news. The winners, whose work began in the esoteric reaches of genetics...
...Market. The Russian backdown over Cuba was a tonic to the market, and it was followed by a series of surprisingly strong economic indicators suggesting that a recession was not just around the corner, after all. Some Wall Streeters also count heavily on the extra lift that the economy should get from a tax cut next year. They also believe that the Administration's mounting deficits should set off the kind of inflation that boosts stock prices (because investors then move heavily into common stocks to protect their depreciating dollars...
...Michigan State University's Oakland campus, has recently been denied tenure. The Detroit Free Press, reporting the story in its December 8th edition, quoted MSU's Associate Dean George Matthews as saying "Shapiro 'would have had a better chance' if he had written less and said less about Cuba and Latin-American affairs...