Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italy, reached the rank of major. He covered the Korean war for the Daily Telegraph, managed to rub most of his fellow correspondents the wrong way until the day he returned from a patrol action with a half-dollar-sized shrapnel hole in his shin and coolly dictated a dispatch...
Unities & Divisions. With the dispatch of men who are agreed, the five quickly organized themselves into the "Permanent Council of the Baghdad pact," picked Baghdad as their permanent seat, set up a permanent secretariat and standing military and economic committees. There would be no joint command staff like NATO's; the council's permanent deputies would simply be the respective ambassadors stationed in Baghdad...
...London and Manchester. We have had to close out our northern copies early." On the way up, Cecil King passed another press lord. Lord Kemsley, 72, once head of the largest press empire in Europe, not only let all three Glasgow papers go but also sold his Manchester Daily Dispatch (to the Liberal national daily, the News Chronicle}, and folded one of his Sunday papers, the famed old Sunday Chronicle, whose bylines have included...
Doing Too Much. Butler seemed wan and tired as he stepped up to the dispatch box amid Labor jeers and Tory silence. He started with the good news, pointing out that his "credit squeeze" (TIME, Aug. 8) had strengthened sterling and "effectively halted" the loss of Britain's reserves. British industrial production is still growing at the rate of almost 6% a year, yet "in spite of new production records, we are faced with a shortage of steel . . . For every individual unemployed there are now more than two vacancies . . . Imports have been 11% higher than they were in corresponding...
Ross admitted that if several numbers in a row were found to be obscene, a withhold-from-dispatch order might be issued--but even this order would probably be held up until a review of the case. In short, he said, the Post Office has "no right to control the contents of magazines...