Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the stoning of a bus at the end of a sultry day. A rock-throwing mob quickly gathered, shots were fired by snipers, and fires soon broke out. The same violent tableau was repeated the next three nights. "One minute it's a mob," said Police Commissioner Frank Felicetta. "Next, it splits into eight gangs heading eight different ways." Yet Felicetta refused to call "it" a riot. "Rampage," he said, "is a better word." The toll: 78 injured, more than 200 arrested, at least $100,000 damage...
During four days of Castro-Kosygin talks, Cubans read or heard almost nothing of what went on. The only hint came at midweek, when Tass reported that the discussions were "frank"-a favorite Soviet euphemism for disagreement. Toward the end of the meetings, however, the two men apparently worked out some of their major differences. The day Kosygin left Havana, airport roads were lined with Russian and Cuban flags, an honor guard boomed out a 21-gun salute, and Castro gave his visitor a parting abrazo...
...capitalism should have help against the muckrakers, who were attacking the callous business practices prevailing around the turn of the century. He taught the railroads not to try to suppress news of accidents, as they had always done, but to win over the press by supplying full and frank detail. By ghostwriting speeches and commissioning biographies, by suggesting foundations and philanthropies, he converted the Rockefellers from the most loathed family in America to one of the most admired...
...defined border areas where p.r. blurs into other activities, notably promotion, as in the creation, out of thin air, of a thin ephemeral wonder named Twiggy. Or else p.r. may be used as a label for image cosmetics, as when a p.r. firm is trying to make Frank Sinatra seem more civic-minded and Bobby Kennedy's press secretary is trying to make him seem less ruthless. Thus it is never easy to tell exactly what p.r. practitioners do. One of their most important functions is the least publicized; it lies not in interpreting the client to the world...
Three months ago, nine-year-old Frank Hayes Jr. was pronounced free of leukemia following treatment with a new anti-cancer substance, L-asparaginase. Last week, in a Dallas hospital, he died. The immediate cause of death was pneumonia, brought on by a strain of bacteria that neither antibiotics nor sulfa drugs could kill. But the underlying cause was the leukemia, which prevented the boy's natural defense mechanisms from fighting off the infection...