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After its meeting the Class Committee said that a Latin diploma is not hypocritical and disputed Pusey's opinion that the new format was aesthetically pleasing...
...KMOX could claim a resounding success. Its afternoon audience had jumped 28% above its disk-jockey days; advertising time on the all-talk program (now expanded to seven hours daily) was sold solidly. Other CBS stations in Boston, Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia had picked up the same format, and officials of at least eight other stations (from Winnipeg to Mexico City) have traveled to St. Louis to listen-and, perhaps, do likewise...
Part of the problem lies in the changed press conference format. In Franklin Roosevelt's day, the press conference, held in the President's own office, amounted to an informal chat with a handful of regular White House reporters. Harry Truman held his conferences in an Old State Department conference room; yet they remained generally breezy affairs...
...worthwhile to have the President submit himself to questions from the press. The real use of the presidential press conference is to enable the President to explain his policies and, if necessary, to compel him to explain them." In this respect, added Columnist Lippmann, the Kennedy conference format has been a failure: "President Kennedy, with all his political genius, is not yet in full effective communication with the people...
...Kennedy's only chance for carrying through any of his ambitious programs is persuasion. If he cannot or will not scare Americans into believing that the recession is a crisis, he can at least explain to them why some action is needed--which is more than the present TV format permits...