Word: exploited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking) met in Washington to toss a headline-making anti-Catholic manifesto into the campaign (TIME, Sept. 19). The manifesto led to Kennedy's dramatic confrontation with the Houston ministers, and gave the Kennedy forces a golden opportunity to exploit the religion issue in Catholic (as well as Protestant) sections of the U.S. by running and rerunning the film. From the Peale manifesto on, conservative Catholics, who leaned toward Nixon, began to move into the Kennedy camp-carrying with them many a vote-heavy urban center out of the 1956 Republican column...
...asked the U.S. for help but was told to get it from the U.N. "I did not understand this comedy," he cried. But now everything was clear: the U.S. wanted a monopoly on Katanga's uranium, and big American interests wanted to extend their concessions to exploit Congolese raw materials.* Ghana's representatives cried "hear, hear." But when it was all over. Lumumba went forlornly home and did not emerge for days...
...Providence will have to exploit the Crimson's lack of depth, evidenced in the Cornell meet...
...open and hard-hitting reporting that serves it so well. Certainly no editor wanted to be merely a propaganda outlet for Khrushchev. James Reston, Washington bureau chief of the New York Times, felt that the answer was for the press to cover the story, but not to let Khrushchev exploit its enterprise, or offer him special forums. Wrote Reston: "The press and wireless agencies cannot in a free society play heroes and villains with the news. The press, radio and television companies are obliged to cover the news-and whatever Khrushchev does is undeniably news-but they are not obliged...
...Private Life of a Private Eye (Enoch Light and the Light Brigade; Command). Bandleader Light, Command's artist-and-repertory chief, and Fellow-Composer Lewis A. Davies have written a ballet for the ear, suggesting that stereo may give rise to original compositions to exploit its spatial effects. The score runs the gamut of styles, incorporating some fine workable musical ideas, as well as some that are merely reminiscent of background music for crime melodramas...