Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks and months wore by, idled Globe employes took work elsewhere; others struggled along on strike benefits (up to $80 a week). Left without a morning paper, Globe-Democrat readers and advertisers bolted en masse to the Post-Dispatch, which gained better than 60,000 in new circulation during the strike...
...attention to the significant events of the day. The kind of stories that fill U.S. newspapers-including international tensions, local crime and disasters-are almost totally ignored unless they make a party-line point. Pravda's Satyukov stopped the presses only twice this year, once to insert a dispatch from the Russian news agency Tass covering U.A.W.-C.I.O. President Walter Reuther's phony "March of the Unemployed" on Washington (TIME, March 2), once to report Konrad Adenauer's decision to yield the West German chancellorship...
...said. "You mean 'Goetz?' " I asked. "Yes." So I said I had just a little German in me, and remembered that the only place my middle name appeared was on my passport (I had not used it on my tourist card), which I had locked in my dispatch case in my room...
Considering the infuriating self-consciousness which is apparently indispensable to the manufacture of yearbooks, the editors of 323 have produced a strangely wishy-washy whitewash in their year-book's pages. This cultivated objectivity is laudable in an Associated Press dispatch, but it is not all which might be hoped of such perceptive reporters...
Last week, in the odd way that news is made these days in France, the major French news agency said that France would "strongly support" Spain for membership in NATO, though it would not necessarily nominate it. The dispatch came as something of a surprise to the Quai d'Orsay, where only Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville knew about...