Word: firming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vice President Richard Nixon's espousal of a policy of calculated coolness toward Latin American strongmen got a warm and friendly reading even in the Dominican Republic, where Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo runs the oldest (28 years) and tightest dictatorship in the non-Communist world. Keeping its usual firm hammerlock on reality, the government radio station in Ciudad Trujillo, La Voz Dominicana, explained: "We are not certain, but it seems logical that Nixon was alluding to the pathetic case of Puerto Rico, and to the dictatorship exerted over that unfortunate island by Governor Luis Muñoz Marin...
...Guess & by Hunch. The pruning seemed generally aimed at curbing the suggestion of civil war, but, with no firm policy guide, the censors cut stories by guess and by hunch. They seized a day's run of the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune that carried a story on the French fleet leaving Malta. But they let French papers and the national radio network carry the same story the same day. Newsmen also had their troubles with the jittery government. For calling President Coty "the great nothing of the Fourth Republic," the London Daily Herald...
...Best There Is. A breach with the Times led the Britannica to sponsorship, for a short period, by Cambridge University. Philanthropist Julius Rosenwald took it to Chicago in 1920 when it was purchased by his firm, Sears, Roebuck & Co. In 1943 Sears turned over the Britannica to the University of Chicago, with William Benton, sometime adman (Benton & Bowles) and U.S. Senator, putting up $100,000 as working capital...
...cried Henry Griffing last fall, when his Oklahoma firm began piping new movies by TV cable into 472 Bartlesville homes for a flat subscription rate of $9.50 a month. But last week Griffing announced that he was giving up; his brand of pay TV has not paid off. Despite a slash in price to $4.95, only 800 of Bartlesville's 28,700 citizens bought-only half the number needed to make cable ends meet. The two main factors that killed telemovies in Bartlesville were competing movies on free TV and the lack of a metering device that would permit...
According to a member of the firm, the Armenian Church is pursuing two courses in attempting to secure permission for a structure which violates the Cambridge zoning regulation for building height by approximately 30 feet...