Word: dispatch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Castro officers imprisoned the naval base's commanders and started broadcasting a call to rebellion. Their appeal was ignored. Within hours loyal navy units had won back the base and arrested the rebel officers and their followers. But the rebels were in control just long enough to dispatch a force of 700 marines to occupy the city of Puerto Cabello, and to release 66 anti-Betancourt civilian guerrillas from the base prison. The guerrillas were each given two machine guns and went to join a group of rabidly pro-Castro students in town...
Just before he flew off to Europe on a combined holiday and art-buying tour, Joseph Pulitzer Jr., 49, publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (circ. 378,293) and grandson of its founder, tarried long enough to take a phone call from his editorial cartoonist, Bill Mauldin (TIME cover, July 21). Mauldin's message was brief: he was leaving the P-D (which was recently added to the official White House reading list, replacing the New York Herald, Tribune's for a better-paying job on Marshall Field Jr.'s Chicago Sun-Times (circ...
What the President wanted to read instead of the Tribune, it turned out, was the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Notified that the White House wanted 22 copies delivered every day, the Post-Dispatch, a liberal paper whose sentiments closely approximate Kennedy's own, splashed the good word all over its news pages, but otherwise said nothing...
...audience; in the middle of a table-thumping denunciation of Stalin, he cut himself short. "But enough," he said. "The world is listening." The world was indeed listening, mostly for his reaction to the war in Southeast Asia. Khrushchev sounded rather mild-for Khrushchev. He condemned the dispatch of U.S. troops to Thailand as "unwise," and predicted that the move would lead to a Korea-style war. American soldiers, he said, "did not come to play golf...
Died. Elzey Roberts Sr., 70, former publisher of the folksy, feisty St. Louis Star-Times, an aloof office tyro who inherited the Star a year after graduating from Princeton in 1915, bought the Times in 1932, and, after battling Joseph Pulitzer's bigger Post-Dispatch for three decades, unpredictably sold out to Pulitzer in 1951; of a heart ailment; in St. Louis...