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...Ikemen still lead relatively sheltered and protected lives, their too great reliance on packaged press relations has often failed to make clear exactly what Administration policies mean. Until the Administration speaks with a clearer, franker voice and reporters go after their stories unhampered by second-guessing their publishers or their readers, Washington coverage will not be what it should...
...woman to have an orgasm, and if they did know they thought it was "not nice." Now. says Kinsey. who puts great stock in quantitative analysis: "To have frigidity so reduced in the course of four decades is ... a considerable achievement which may be credited, in part, to the franker attitudes and the freer discussion of sex which we have had in the U.S. during the past 20 years. and to the increasing scientific and clinical understanding...
Sports news played a very large part in the paper of the Gay '90's, Accounts of the daily football practice were invariably given the best spot in the paper, and slight jugglings in the jayvee crew boatings were big news. Early CRIMSON writers were much franker in their criticism of teams than today's timid journalists. Specific players were singled out for uncomplimentary comment: "Simmons will just have to try harder. . .Stokes still waits too long on the recovery. . .Charlton refuses to charge ground balls" are typical examples. There was a lot of talk about overemphasis of sports...
Unchanging Objective. But in private, Ridgway was somewhat franker. At week's end the Senate Armed Services Committee released a censored account of its interview with Ridgway. Items...
...wherever they could, the Roman Catholics hung on. The Reds tried their old trick of setting up a "church" of quisling Catholics "independent" of Rome. When that failed (TIME, July 2), they fell back on franker methods. Last week news reached Hong Kong that in Peking the Communists had jailed at least 14 priests, padlocked twelve of the city's 17 Catholic churches and put all foreign priests still in Peking (about 40) under house arrest...